Dr. David Eagleman

about this such that when the next generation hears propaganda about any group, they say, wait a minute, I've heard that trick before.

I know what this is.

This is just calling the other group.

Oh, they're not like us.

They're not human.

And so I'm dialing down these networks that care about other humans.

Therefore, I don't care about them as much.

I don't have empathy for them as much.

And I'm willing to take up arms against them.

Yeah.

Oh, I totally agree.

I think this political statement does matter because when the society reaches a point where some group of people is referred to essentially as non-human, that's when things get really dangerous really fast.

The Tutsis, cockroaches, the Jews as pestilence in Germany and whatever, you know.

All these things make a difference.

And by the way, you know, in Germany, in the Reichstag in 1934, all the people elected to the Reichstag were either far right Nazi party or far left communist party.

It was like a really polarized time.

And the part that's so scary about polarization of that extreme is that it just takes a moment for one party to eat the other.

It just it goes really fast.

And.

Suddenly, you know, when Hitler took power, when President von Hindenburg died, Hitler declared himself the Fuhrer and rounded up all the communists and put him in jail in concentration camps right away.