George Saunders
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And when I talk to him, he's so nice.
So now we have a new portrait of the man.
And I think that would totally enable one to oppose him better.
Better than if you had a...
a character of him that didn't comply with truth.
I don't, to me as a scientist, I'm going, yeah, of course you'd want all the information you could have.
And if it's hard to process or it's complicated, that's okay.
That's just part of the game, you know?
So I think that's part of maybe the, there's so much emotion right now, so much agitation and fear.
And that, I think that somehow, for some reason, that makes people crave autopilot.
You know, a set of beliefs that's very simple and is sturdy in every circumstance.
And that's not really what human beings are good at.
I mean, we like it, we like it.
But out of that comes violence and extremity.
And I would say that's what the right is doing right now.
They're somehow, I think they know they're looting the house and they know the time is limited.
And so they're agitated and they're on autopilot.
And anybody who opposes them is a leftist lunatic.
You know, you have the evidence of your senses says this in Minneapolis is a murder.