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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's so much here that's confusing. |
0:04.0 | So let's first talk about what went wrong and what could have not gone wrong. |
0:08.5 | Your whole podcast is about just having honest conversations about topics. |
0:12.5 | It's offensive to your advice and suggest this. |
0:15.5 | You actually care. |
0:17.5 | How has my mind been fundamentally worked? |
0:20.0 | So the topic today is the threat of nuclear war. |
0:23.0 | Slow erosion of the social fabric and synthetic media revolution. |
0:27.0 | The collapse of our economy. The role of religion in public life. |
0:30.0 | Morality and moral disagreement. Break down the truth. |
0:32.5 | I'm scared that us two in a room were egg each other wrong. |
0:36.5 | You can't have a satellite anymore. |
0:38.5 | There's no place for nuance. Everything has to be binary for the right people to agree and disagree. |
0:45.0 | It's not a healthy place for society to be when everyone is afraid to say anything. |
0:50.5 | I've learned to exercise censorship on myself. |
0:54.5 | In a way that is deeply disturbing, I don't feel that I should have to. |
0:59.0 | I appreciate who you are really and you elevated me and those ideas. |
1:03.5 | I'll never forget you for it. |
1:05.5 | We all danger doing the Cold War but blundering into a nuclear war. |
1:09.5 | And I believe that that is the same situation today and with the least the same likelihood today. |
1:15.0 | You're so full of Christmas cheer. |
1:17.5 | Today I'm speaking with Robert Plomont. |
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