Eric Weinstein

So my feeling about this is Poland experienced a fifth or a fourth of its population dying during World War II.

I don't feel that way about polls at all.

And it is true what you say, Francis, about expendability in terms of risk tolerance.

Have you been over in Russia?

It's just different.

People have a different level of risk tolerance.

And I believe that that is culture.

But if you move a Russian to Bel Air or Beverly Hills,

they very quickly acclimatized to the idea that their safety matters.

And my feeling about this is this is the luxury of a country with unbelievable borders, two beautiful oceans, a very long peaceful border with Canada, and kind of a weird border with Mexico, thinking that there's something about American life that is precious.

And it's an accident.

Almost 100% of who I am

came from Russia and Ukraine and Moldova and Romania and Latvia.

I think we just have to get out of this mindset.

I think that they are us.

And they are a spicy, weirder, stranger version of us.

But in the grand scheme of things, it's not Africa.

It's not East Asia.

It's not the Pacific Islands.

That's us.