Why We Hate Being Told What To Do

Build For Tomorrow

Jason Feifer

Business, History, Technology, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

People are refusing to wear masks during a pandemic. Why? To understand, we rewind to the “Anti-Mask League” of 1919 and to the opposition to seatbelt laws in the 1990s. Then we answer the big question: If people won’t listen to mandates, what *will* they listen to? Thanks to our sponsors: Plume.com/pessimists Betterhelp.com/archive Hullopillow.com/pessimistsarchive Get in touch! Web: jasonfeifer.com Email. jasonfeifer@gmail.com Twitter / Instagram: @heyfeifer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:57.0	discount. This is Pessimists Archive, a show about why people resist new things. I'm Jason
1:05.1	Pfeiffer. The people of San Francisco were excited. It was November 21st, 1918, and this was to be their day. Their day of freedom,
1:16.6	their day of victory, and it would all begin at noon. So as the golden hour neared, they gathered in the streets in front of clock towers and watched and waited.
1:27.2	It must have been a little like New Year's Eve in Times Square,
1:29.7	except with big hats that nobody thought were ironic.
1:32.3	You could imagine them counting down the time.
1:34.7	1158, 1159, and then...
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