Ben Bradford
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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You know, the way that we stop nuclear war more than anything is through diplomacy, through making sure that we and that others understand us and that we have a dialogue so that we don't blow ourselves up through misunderstanding.
When we look at political division,
It's communal spirit.
It's figuring out some way to build community, to reach people who disagree with us, who we disagree with, and find common understanding.
I mean, that's the bedrock of democracies throughout history and throughout the world.
And so, like, again, I don't want to sound too kumbaya here, but I keep kind of coming back to that as I find problem after problem that almost all of them require good information.
I can't think of one that doesn't require good information, good project management, and that wouldn't be aided by us just figuring out how to be more communal.
There's a reason there's a question mark in our title.
I think that there are some doomsday events that are just so unlikely you can put them to the side.
There are others that's like, yeah, they're real, but they just are real backburners.
There are ones where it's like, hey, we're actually doing a pretty good job.
You know, that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?
Not worried about that.
It's not because it can't happen.
It's because of the work that has been done to stop it from happening.
You know, NASA likes to say the dinosaurs didn't have a space program.
And that is 100% true.
So I don't think we're doomed.
I don't think we're necessarily not.
But it's been really cool to get that perspective of history, to zoom out, see how many times we felt this way before and how we've come out of it.
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