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The Gist

The Societal Optimist

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, calming down about Trump's bombast. In the interview, Nicholas Christakis is here to discuss his new book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, how he studied the progression of goodness throughout human history, the way healthy communities evolve, and why shipwrecks were so important to his research.  In the Spiel, the problem with microaggressions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following recording may contain explicit language.

0:02.8

I can't get more explicit than may.

0:05.6

Let's just say it may.

0:07.0

["Major's

0:59.6

Out, we should be saying, shut down, shut down the border that's going to destroy

1:03.6

commerce.

1:04.6

How could you do that?

1:05.6

How could you think of it?

1:06.9

Consider the havoc for so many Americans, except it won't.

1:11.0

Because Donald Trump is a deeply unserious person who won't get it done.

1:14.9

Am I being complacent?

1:15.9

Well, it gets back again to that gist signal.

1:18.9

I don't think I have a huge ability to actually affect the experiment.

1:22.6

Heisenberg would be proud.

1:24.4

But I'm on just con four with these two announcements.

1:28.6

Such full waiting.

1:30.0

An insanely stupid policy choice paired with an administration with poor follow-through

1:35.7

and little to no skill at execution, add in the bluster to deed ratio of the president,

1:41.8

which is out of control as to be bordering on the imaginary.

1:45.4

And I mean that in the mathematics sense because when the denominator of a fraction is zero,

1:50.0

the number becomes imaginary.

1:52.2

So like the serenity prayer says, I have the serenity to accept when I'm powerless to

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