Sarah Paine

for others to get with the program.

And that would be the— if we're going to make it through this second one, we need to start cooperating with our allies, building institutions, improving laws.

Don't just burn down the house.

And we will get through this one, too, and we will live fulfilling lives while we're waiting out Putin to come up with something different or Xi Jinping for coming up with something different.

But if we blow through our good hand of cards, which involves having, so you interview all kinds of people at the cutting edge of technology.

If we get rid of all of our university funding, so we aren't going to have the intellectual capital on which those businesses are based.

If we're going to dump all our allies for unknown reasons and just alienate them so they organize without us.

If we're going to just throw away entire institutions without thinking very carefully about what we're doing, it's called we become a cooperative adversary.

And we will be the bozo putting a plastic bag on our own head.

And I look at the rhymes here.

The Soviets had this ancient leadership.

just couldn't get their act together and they're living off of debt instead of thinking creatively.

Oh, the rhymes are awful, but we don't have to do it that way.

So it is more optimistic, but we need to get our house in order.

And that's why I'm doing these lectures.

They're lectures and strategy to give you tools on how to come to your own decisions.

But you got it backwards.

I was an unknown academic.

And then you cold called me about doing an interview.

And I said, sure.