Anand Giridharadas
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
One is, I think the level of public awareness of what you and I have been talking about in this hour today versus a decade ago is night and day.
partly because of some of these political candidacies that we talked about, which were, even when they lose, they win the game of educating people.
If you look at young people with political accounts on TikTok and Instagram and all these things, right?
This young generation is so amazing in their ability to see through the bullshit story.
Like, they're not even native to this bullshit story.
They haven't even seen their way out of it.
I don't know how.
But they were just never successfully indoctrinated into it.
By the way, I recently used that analogy and a scientist emailed me.
To be like, I am sick and tired of frogs being maligned.
Frogs absolutely jump out of water if you keep raising the temperature.
The whole world.
Isn't this amazing?
You should do a whole episode on this, by the way.
He was like, I've studied frogs my whole life.
Frogs are smart, intelligent creatures.
I am sick and tired of everybody in the media
He's like, the frogs be jumping out of the boiling water and y'all have to stop saying this.
It was amazing.
It was one of the best.