environment for ideas to come and right around that time uh my daughter we uh dislocated uh a ligament in my daughter's armum beating the crap out of her don't tell me how to
I'm lying there on the field. My shoulder's dislocated . And the doctors rush out. They sent me to the hospital there on campus, and they say, you need emergency reconstructive surgery on your shoulder because your shoulder is just destroyed.
the biggest recession since 1929 and we are still living in that dislocation because there's a lot excuse me a lot of people who got dislocated at that moment and brexit and Trump are not unrelated to that fact so um God that's really cool I can actually tell this story on
I called the South African Heritage Resource Agency, because there's actually cell phone coverage at the site, to get permission to take it out. She seems to have dislocated her right arm as she fell, possibly sticking it out.
If you look at how many people live within three feet of sea level the world over, you'll discover that the number's about 100 million. And we experienced the social problems of dealing with dislocated people, with the people in New Orleans, following Hurricane Katrina. We had about a 150,000 people that were climate refugees.
The Slade School of Art, which is normally part of University College London, was also evacuated to Oxford. So you have this strangely dislocated and disoriented feel about the period. We've had the meeting of a little literary club who exists to invite famous writers to come and read to them.
That's a ligamentous pit. And so what you can imagine is, if you're trying to hold onto something and something's wriggling, you want grip. And there's a risk that you'll just dislocate your fingers. So we have ligaments that hold bone to bone. And if you just put it flat to flat surface area, there's only so much you can attach. Whereas if you turn that into a little hemispherical dip, you get a lot more surface area for your area.
They just don't understand the concept of not being able to sleep. So there's something about modernity that's desperately dislocated us from this thing called a good night of sleep. Right. And so let's just talk for a minute.
Maybe someone memorizes some openings on chess, and they execute those, but that's a little different than the person who sees 12 moves ahead and is executing a careful strategy of distracting you in one region of the board so that they can take advantage of your dislocated attention in another region of the board.
become. Why are these problems not fixable? In other words, it's pretty obvious to me that if you had a bunch of people in a room and said we've got lots of smart people coming in, lots of people who are being dislocated in housing. We need more affordable housing, we need more of this and more of that and so forth.
And I just want to review where we are now. 170,000 deaths, 11 and 1/2 million internally dislocated people, three million refugees. One out of six people in Lebanon and one out of five people in Jordan are now refugees.
That's a really interesting point. Now, what's very common, very, very common had a severe bruise. In fact, he had a dislocated rib.
really born in the 18th century in the west uh that's when it started to be born this idea that each part can be correspond to a specialism that there are experts for each part of the body meaning that we become quite dislocated that we become uh that it's hard to treat the whole when you're only looking at the part. Uh there's the it's also
regulatory changes the political reforms they all freeze because the world enters the biggest recession since 1929 and we are still living in that dislocation because there's a lot excuse me a lot of people who got dislocated at that moment and brexit and Trump are not unrelated