Martin Gurri: "There's No Going Back to Normal"
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. He is the author of 'The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium'.
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro
01:19 Martin Gurri’s Background
05:53 Society’s Distrust in Elites
11:00 The Problems with Our Institutions
14:15 How Long Can the Elites Hold on to their Power?
16:50 Is a Revolution Coming?
20:53 Sponsor Message: ExpressVPN
22:41 The War on Truth
30:02 Living in a Post-Truth Society
32:31 How Do We Fix the Incentivisation of Conflict?
36:08 How to Individually Contribute to Making a Better World
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42:09 Can Our Institutions Be Saved?
46:09 The Role Technology Will Play in the Future
50:30 Is the West Making Itself More Vulnerable?
55:22 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?
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| 0:12.0 | And your ticket is your postcode. |
| 0:15.0 | Prizes are one every day, including millionaire street, where one lucky postcode wins a share |
| 0:21.0 | of 1 million pounds every Saturday. |
| 0:24.0 | Also, at the end of the month, players in one postcode area win a share of a minimum of 3.2 million pounds. |
| 0:32.0 | A minimum of 33% of every ticket goes to charities and good causes across Great Britain and beyond, |
| 0:39.0 | with a staggering 1.1 billion pounds raised so far. |
| 0:43.0 | So, for a chance to win, sign up before midnight on the 24th of August to play in the September draws, |
| 0:50.0 | and the next winning postcode could be yours. |
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| 0:57.0 | Play responsibly, not available in Northern Ireland. |
| 1:00.0 | What is very, very clear is that there's something systemically wrong with these institutions. |
| 1:06.0 | They are maladapted. |
| 1:07.0 | They are a little bit like the dinosaurs that are watching this comet, you know, |
| 1:12.0 | the screech down the sky and are about to, it's about to hit the ground. |
| 1:18.0 | You at least have no real ideology other than control, |
| 1:23.0 | and they've gone to identity because it provides control. |
| 1:27.0 | They have lost their authority, but now they can have control. |
| 1:31.0 | The chaos is not going to go away. |
| 1:32.0 | We're not going to go back to quote normal. |
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