to mobilize, right? The big push to coordinate the supply chains. And then all this effervescence that you feel in the air, it's not GDP growth as numbers, you actually see it.
And I want us all to feel like that. I want us to all feel that effervescent about our lives and passionate about the things we're doing. And it's not that-- not every day you're going to be all happy and giggly.
And she ran away to join the circus when she was 18 because she-- it was either a life as a housewife in Cleveland society wasting away or falling in love with a very charming and effervescent man and getting to train animals for her life. So she chose that.
So whether you're doing it at Mass on Sunday, whether you're in Croke Park, whether you're down at Electric Picnic, you're engaging in a process of experiencing what Durkheim called collective effervescence. And I think that is a really important way in which we sort of materially and physically connect with others.
You can serve it with a spoon and a straw, kind of like a milkshake. It's beautiful, it's effervescent, and it's tart. And it's a little sweet, and it's not too sweet because you have vodka in all that.
crossing the West till it got to the guys digging for gold. I mean, it probably didn't have much effervescence. Who knows how sweet it was to preserve it?
Now, religion, I mean, obviously, that's a huge area to get into. In some parts of the world, religious experience, religious effervescence has intensified. But in the Western world, it has really been declining.
In the beginning of the journey, that first stage in dream, what they need is a moment of inspiration. It's a bigger moment along all those other moments where you need to create collective effervescence, this moment where the people are bound to each other
It's a very long story, but basically when it was initiated in the 1960s by people that believed there was huge variation within this country linguistically and dialectically, let's record it before it all effervesces and America, everyone speaks exactly the same, which hasn't happened of course. Yeah. And they sent these people to the furthest reaches of this country and what were called Word Wagons.
Amazing. On the top right, you'll see the duality, which is my aunt, who is very effervescent, and friendly, and is always trying to make everyone happy. And then, my mom who is teeth clenched, rage in her heart.
And the reason that I invited you today here, Dr. Huang, is because of this amazing book that you recently wrote-- "Edge, Turning Adversity into Advantage." I actually had the pleasure of being able to sit in one of your classes this past January at Harvard-- unbelievable, super effervescent, charming. The way you commanded the room, knew everyone's names, taught the concepts, it was unbelievable, which inspired me to pick up the book.
That's me, I'm good at culture. I'm the guy. And then and then what happened is we went through a really difficult, calamitous period, where rather than people effervescent scurrying to their desks, it was a bit like the "Thriller" video, where people bleep in through the door and then sort of zombie-like stumble to their desk.
And she went to the Athens Games in '04 as the number one in the world for 200-meter freestyle. And she's a great, great personality, real sort of punchy, effervescent girl. She always used to say that, when she retired from swimming, she was going to be a firefighter.
OK. And what I was arguing, what sociologists would argue, is that people turn to sport and other experiences like music for an experience of what Emile Durkheim, back in the 19th century, called collective effervescence. I think it's a fabulous term.
walk around the city, you start to see the damage that the sea water, and particularly the salt, ravages on the brickwork. You actually start seeing the very material substances within the city of Venice, the very fabric of being digested away by the giant stomach of the elements and the lagoon substances. You can see effervescence here; quite liberally, it's like the icing that's been dusted over the walls. You can also see how very much the marble and even the concrete that's been stuffed in the holes in the brickwork is suffering