Jonathan Haidt

We don't need everybody, but if we get...

Most people, we solve this problem.

If you can just do two terms, I'd say evolutionary biology meets the problems of modernity.

If you can just do two terms, I'd say evolutionary biology meets the problems of modernity.

But if we can add in evolutionary psychology meets anthropology and cultural psychology with a little smattering of sociology in the head of a guy who is just really bothered when he sees systems and institutions screwing up, messing up, and he thinks to himself, wait, if we just did this, it would work better.

But if we can add in evolutionary psychology meets anthropology and cultural psychology with a little smattering of sociology in the head of a guy who is just really bothered when he sees systems and institutions screwing up, messing up, and he thinks to himself, wait, if we just did this, it would work better.

And so I get deeply involved in what's going wrong with our democracy, and that's the righteous mind. What's going wrong with our universities? That's the coddling the American mind and my project at Heterodox Academy. And now what's going wrong with family life and children and people born after 1995? So I would just put a few more terms in there, but yeah.

And so I get deeply involved in what's going wrong with our democracy, and that's the righteous mind. What's going wrong with our universities? That's the coddling the American mind and my project at Heterodox Academy. And now what's going wrong with family life and children and people born after 1995? So I would just put a few more terms in there, but yeah.

That's right. I mean, things change at different speeds. And of course, evolution works extremely slowly, unless you are a plant biologist who has a company that is making it happen very quickly. But until very recently, our psychological evolution or the evolution of our minds happened at the level of tens of millennia. And then culture changes more slowly.

That's right. I mean, things change at different speeds. And of course, evolution works extremely slowly, unless you are a plant biologist who has a company that is making it happen very quickly. But until very recently, our psychological evolution or the evolution of our minds happened at the level of tens of millennia. And then culture changes more slowly.

And really, the origin of sociology is really in the huge changes in the 19th century. wrought by the industrial revolution.

And really, the origin of sociology is really in the huge changes in the 19th century. wrought by the industrial revolution.

I guess, sure. For you guys, it's the first industrial, that's right, yeah.

I guess, sure. For you guys, it's the first industrial, that's right, yeah.

Right. And, you know, because often we can see that we can see changes on the surface, like, oh, people will now have more access to information. That's great.

Right. And, you know, because often we can see that we can see changes on the surface, like, oh, people will now have more access to information. That's great.

But a lot of the early sociologists like, you know, Weber and Durkheim and Tunis and all these, you know, German, European guys, they could see that something, something very deep about the way we live together is changing in ways that we don't really understand. And, you know, one of my concerns, again, we'll talk a lot about this, I hope, I love technology. I love my phone.

But a lot of the early sociologists like, you know, Weber and Durkheim and Tunis and all these, you know, German, European guys, they could see that something, something very deep about the way we live together is changing in ways that we don't really understand. And, you know, one of my concerns, again, we'll talk a lot about this, I hope, I love technology. I love my phone.

I love all the convenience. I'm not anti-tech, but one thing that I'm thinking a lot about is how you guys, whatever, the tech industry out in the West Coast, you do employ a bunch of social psychologists, like especially Meta, a few other companies, not necessarily for good, I think sometimes for manipulation, but you do employ some social psychologists.

I love all the convenience. I'm not anti-tech, but one thing that I'm thinking a lot about is how you guys, whatever, the tech industry out in the West Coast, you do employ a bunch of social psychologists, like especially Meta, a few other companies, not necessarily for good, I think sometimes for manipulation, but you do employ some social psychologists.