12 korrents from this recording
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Their wordsAnd 2016 is the moment when a very large segment, even of the Western world, stopped believing in this story. For good or bad reasons -- it doesn't matter. People stopped believing in the story, and when you don't have a story, you don't understand what's happening.
0:05:05 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsthe old 20th-century political model of left versus right is now largely irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local.
0:05:32 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
We have a global ecology and a global economy but national politics, and these do not work together
Their wordsIn essence, what you can say is that we now have global ecology, we have a global economy but we have national politics, and this doesn't work together.
0:14:27 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsmost of what we teach children today in school or in college is going to be completely irrelevant to the job market of 2040, 2050.
0:15:38 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
The agricultural revolution empowered the collective but made the lives of most individuals worse
Their wordsDuring the agricultural revolution, what happened is that immense technological and economic revolution empowered the human collective, but when you look at actual individual lives, the life of a tiny elite became much better, and the lives of the majority of people became considerably worse.
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Their wordsbecause nationalism has no solution to climate change. If you want to be a nationalist in the 21st century, you have to deny the problem.
0:32:32 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsIdentity is always problematic, because identity is always based on fictional stories that sooner or later collide with reality.
0:39:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsWhat's happening today in places like Silicon Valley is that we are creating artificial intelligence but not artificial consciousness.
0:42:35 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsThe simplest one, the best one that I can say in short, is the test of suffering. If it can suffer, it's real. If it can't suffer, it's not real. A nation cannot suffer.
0:45:56 · watch on youtube.com↗
Their wordsI think that fake news has been with us for thousands of years. Just think of the Bible.
0:50:16 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Modern alienation comes less from global capitalism than from people becoming disembodied
Their wordsThe chief problem is that over the last hundred years, people have been becoming disembodied, have been distancing themselves from their body.
0:57:57 · watch on youtube.com↗
Our reading
Nuclear weapons pushed humans to manage international politics in a way that reduced violence
Their wordsIn fact, nuclear weapons prompted humans all over the world to change the way that they manage international politics to reduce violence.