We should totally concede this obvious point.

I don't know why this is a point that has been made by some people that we know that we need institutions.

We need institutions that we can rely on, that we can trust, and we can't only on, that we can trust.

And we can't only figure this out through Substacks

and through this infinite division

and all these different branches on Substack and podcast

where everyone has their hot takes on vaccines

and all these things. That's a totally dysfunctional model, right, to have this much division,

this many infinite sources of information. Division this Brett Weinstein and I have the pleasure of sitting this afternoon with Rave Aurora who is an independent journalist and he is part of the joint partnership called

Illusion of Consensus on Substac with Jay Botacharya. Welcome to Dark Horse

Rav. Hey Brett, it's great to be here. Awesome. So you and I have been talking informally over the course of many months on a number of different topics.

And you impressed upon me that some of these topics needed a wider exploration, for example here on Dark Horse. So let's talk first about how it is that you find yourself in journalism and then we'll get to some of the topics

that you and I find jointly interesting.

Sure.

Sure.

So just to paint a broad picture. I graduated in 2019 and didn't know what the fuck I was doing with my life.

And it was very creative into writing, into reading, into into debating and looking at things

critically and then BLM happened in 2020 the George Floyd tragedy and

there I saw a big vacuum in mainstream media in covering these events honestly.

And so I started writing about identity politics and white privilege claims about systemic racism, group

disparities, and particularly police shootings and

inner city violence and put out a couple of big pieces that I had no idea what I was getting into but they

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