Tim Urban
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
Tim Urban’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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changed everything.
So there could be a changed everything thing on the way.
It seems like there's a few candidates for it.
But I mean, it feels like the stakes are just high, higher than it even was for the Romans, higher than it was for because we're more powerful as a species.
We have godlike powers with technology that other civilizations at their peak didn't have.
And so...
Well, that's the big question.
So right now, you know, the 1890s was like a super politically contentious decade in the U.S.
It was like immense tribalism, and the newspapers were all like lying and telling, you know, there was a lot of like what we would associate with today's media, the worst of it.
And it was over gold or silver being this, I don't know, it's something that I don't understand.
The point is, it was a little bit of a blip, right?
It happened, it felt, it must have felt like the end of days at the time.
And then now we, most people don't even know about that.
Versus, you know, again, the Roman Empire actually collapsed.
And so the question is just like, is, yeah, you know, will in 50 years, will this be like, or like McCarthyism?
Oh, they had like, oh, that was like a crazy few years in America, and then it was fine.
Or is this the beginning of something really big?
And that's what I don't
How do we do our best?
The one thing I know for sure is that we need to have our wits about us and do our best.
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