Timur Kuran on Why We Lie About Our Beliefs

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Timur Kuran discuss the perceived social and political pressures that lead individuals to conceal their true beliefs—and what that means for our politics. Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification and Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Timur Kuran discuss how the phenomenon of people falsifying their preferences explains why revolutions are so unpredictable; how preference falsification operates in journalism and whether journalists get rewarded or punished for breaking taboos; and how we can move towards a society in which more people feel empowered to truthfully express their beliefs. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	BAM, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist,
0:03.4	play. Not that artist!
0:05.4	Ha ha, yeah, that's you!
0:08.0	You look down at the red can in your hand, or is it?
0:11.4	No, it's a Pepsi Max.
0:13.0	The COLA over 70% of the UK prefer.
0:16.0	You props prefer it too. Go on, try it.
0:19.0	Pepsi Max. Lastly for more.
0:23.0	UK Blind Taste Test with over 54,000 people versus UK's biggest selling full sugarcola.
0:27.6	For verification go to Pepsi.
0:28.9	Code at UK slash FAQ.
0:32.0	In the case of the Arab Spring, what started it was a match that a street vendor lit the
0:40.4	burn himself.
0:41.4	He poured some gasoline on himself and he lit a match, self-immolated.
0:47.0	That struck a nerve in enough Tunisians that they took to the streets and there were so many that took to the streets that that brought in tens of thousands of more, hundreds of thousands of more and that toppled the regime. But we don't know exactly
1:07.5	when such a self-immolation will strike that nerve. Was Boazizi? Was he the first person who
1:14.4	self-immolated? No. There had been
1:17.7	tens of other cases that did not have that.
1:21.6	But in this case, this episode was caught on tape. It went viral and there were enough people in Tunisian society who could relate to it.
1:35.0	So this is why so many big political explosions
1:41.0	catch everyone by surprise.
1:44.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
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