Tim Urban
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2,102 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
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And that to me is discourse.
That is open, vigorous, like discussion in a culture that fosters that is how the species, how the American citizens as a unit can be
as wise as possible, can maybe see four feet ahead instead of one foot ahead.
Well, it's a deep confidence.
That was a deep confidence about the instrumental way to get there.
It was that, you know, I think a lot of us can agree that if everyone had everything they needed and we didn't have disease or poverty and people could live as long as they wanted to and choose when to die and there was no existential, major existential threat because we control.
I think almost everyone can agree that would be great.
That communism is a, that was, they said, this is the way to get there.
And that is,
that that's a different question, you know?
So the, the, the unimaginably good future I'm, I'm picturing, I think a lot of people would picture, and I think most people would agree.
No, not everyone.
There's a lot of people out there who would say humans are the scourge on the earth and we should de-growth or something.
But I think a lot of people would agree that, you know, just again, take Thomas Jefferson, bring him here.
He would see it as a utopia for obvious reasons for the, the, the medicine, the food, the transportation, um,
just how the quality of life and the safety and all of that.
So extrapolate that forward for us.
Now we were Thomas Jefferson, you know, what's the equivalent?
That's what I'm talking about.
And the big question is, I don't try to say, here's the way to get there.
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