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Konstantin Kisin

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Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

Well, for example, one thing I actually didn't know was, you know, the evacuation of the British expeditionary force from Dunkirk. People would have seen the movie. That only was possible because there was a unit at Calais, which is further south of Dunkirk, which was basically ordered to stand to the death. So we were like, we're going to sacrifice all these people.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

Well, for example, one thing I actually didn't know was, you know, the evacuation of the British expeditionary force from Dunkirk. People would have seen the movie. That only was possible because there was a unit at Calais, which is further south of Dunkirk, which was basically ordered to stand to the death. So we were like, we're going to sacrifice all these people.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

Well, for example, one thing I actually didn't know was, you know, the evacuation of the British expeditionary force from Dunkirk. People would have seen the movie. That only was possible because there was a unit at Calais, which is further south of Dunkirk, which was basically ordered to stand to the death. So we were like, we're going to sacrifice all these people.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

They're going to die so we can save these people. And they did. And they did. Wow. Do you know how many people died? I don't know, but they fought almost to the death. Then they pulled out the commanding officer. They gave him a direct order. You have to get on this boat and leave and leave your men behind because we're going to need you later.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

They're going to die so we can save these people. And they did. And they did. Wow. Do you know how many people died? I don't know, but they fought almost to the death. Then they pulled out the commanding officer. They gave him a direct order. You have to get on this boat and leave and leave your men behind because we're going to need you later.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

They're going to die so we can save these people. And they did. And they did. Wow. Do you know how many people died? I don't know, but they fought almost to the death. Then they pulled out the commanding officer. They gave him a direct order. You have to get on this boat and leave and leave your men behind because we're going to need you later.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And then they allowed the small remnants of the British unit to surrender. If you look at the way we talk about many conflicts that are happening at the moment, there is no recognition that casualties are part of conflict, for example, right? This has now become completely abnormal to our way of thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And then they allowed the small remnants of the British unit to surrender. If you look at the way we talk about many conflicts that are happening at the moment, there is no recognition that casualties are part of conflict, for example, right? This has now become completely abnormal to our way of thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And then they allowed the small remnants of the British unit to surrender. If you look at the way we talk about many conflicts that are happening at the moment, there is no recognition that casualties are part of conflict, for example, right? This has now become completely abnormal to our way of thinking.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And so there are lots of things in which we've moved on to this illusory world that exists in our heads in which everything is supposed to be perfect. Therefore, if it's not perfect, it's someone else's fault.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And so there are lots of things in which we've moved on to this illusory world that exists in our heads in which everything is supposed to be perfect. Therefore, if it's not perfect, it's someone else's fault.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

And so there are lots of things in which we've moved on to this illusory world that exists in our heads in which everything is supposed to be perfect. Therefore, if it's not perfect, it's someone else's fault.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

I totally agree with that. I think that that is really it. And then if you drill down a little bit further into that, one other thing that's worth adding is that we're living through the era of mass customization. We have been for some time, especially if you live in America. What I mean by that is if you go to a drinks machine or a vending machine in the US, right, you can have

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

I totally agree with that. I think that that is really it. And then if you drill down a little bit further into that, one other thing that's worth adding is that we're living through the era of mass customization. We have been for some time, especially if you live in America. What I mean by that is if you go to a drinks machine or a vending machine in the US, right, you can have

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

I totally agree with that. I think that that is really it. And then if you drill down a little bit further into that, one other thing that's worth adding is that we're living through the era of mass customization. We have been for some time, especially if you live in America. What I mean by that is if you go to a drinks machine or a vending machine in the US, right, you can have

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

First of all, you've got eight choices. You can have Fanta. And then you can have each one of them in like eight different flavors. You can have lemon Fanta, orange Fanta, raspberry Fanta, all of that, right? So not only do we control most of the things around us, we get to choose exactly how we want it. At your fingertips, you have...

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

First of all, you've got eight choices. You can have Fanta. And then you can have each one of them in like eight different flavors. You can have lemon Fanta, orange Fanta, raspberry Fanta, all of that, right? So not only do we control most of the things around us, we get to choose exactly how we want it. At your fingertips, you have...

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

First of all, you've got eight choices. You can have Fanta. And then you can have each one of them in like eight different flavors. You can have lemon Fanta, orange Fanta, raspberry Fanta, all of that, right? So not only do we control most of the things around us, we get to choose exactly how we want it. At your fingertips, you have...

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

I don't know, 100,000 pairs of different shoes that you could buy. Same with t-shirts. So everything that we now consume, we have a level of choice that's completely unprecedented, which gives us an illusion of really high levels of control over everything. It's not just that we've really kind of got on top of infant mortality and all of these other things. Not only that, you can design your baby.

Modern Wisdom
#886 - Konstantin Kisin - A Plan To Save The Western World

I don't know, 100,000 pairs of different shoes that you could buy. Same with t-shirts. So everything that we now consume, we have a level of choice that's completely unprecedented, which gives us an illusion of really high levels of control over everything. It's not just that we've really kind of got on top of infant mortality and all of these other things. Not only that, you can design your baby.