And I am sure music help the world-- help people be together, sitting together no matter your race, no matter your religion, no matter anything politic , no matter anything.Music is the universal language and can put people together, and no doubt about that.
probability? And even if it's a even if it's a 10% chance that they're right, are you worried that this can lead to political polarization? What happened in globalization can now happen What happened in 30 years could happen in two or three. Is that Is that not a concern, or should we start doing something about that?
engaged than these conversations and can do it in a way that is perhaps a little less, a little more dispassionate is perhaps the right way to say that there might be an opportunity for more fruitful political engagement. Oh, God, there's like five things I want to say about this. I'm never going to remember all of them because they're all on five different paths. The first thing is, and remind me about this, but we're not incentivized to keep the level of heat in our political culture down. The incentivization all runs the other direction. Sure. But let me, I want to play off
important to you is if you click on that button on the reading list, there's a long reading list in both economics and political science. Both of current work that other people are doing in this area. Steve Reading for example here with Bener working also on this and they have great papers. But even more relevant in in terms of hard
You know, people who are on... ...political Twitter or they have a very strong hobby... ...or they are very invested in their football team.
not, he is doing things. Politically didn't pan out.
I think that is because you can see neighbors turning on each other, especially if you look historically at the start of wars or big political moments where you have people who would have called each other friends turning each other in to the police, killing each other, doing terrible things. So I think all it takes is to become convinced that the people you think are your friends are actually your enemies, whether that's just in your own
Why do you think it's happened? - Politics in the United States is so dumb that at the very beginning it could just be reduced to, well, the left went, "Putin bad, Zelensky good, rah rah," Ukrainian flags, therefore the right must go the opposite.
- And it's political power, yeah, more importantly in the case of China. - Political power. - Non-kinetic warfare to take over areas. Hong Kong being the obvious one.
you tend to have elections swinging back and forth. political position, that would make them stronger for the midterms, it would eventually make, you know, JD Vance stronger as a successor,
- And one of which maybe you can put a word on it of not to be romantic or anything, but freedom, individual freedom, economic freedom, political freedom, and just in general, individualism. - Yeah, that's right.
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But that means reforming, tuning up, changing that political system because the the problems in that political system help to explain all of the economic problems that I think so many Americans are living with, where you've had enormous economic growth and shockingly little of it making it into people's pockets.
And there's not a lot of that given that kind of instability, that pattern that we face. You know, I followed American politics I think since I was about 10.One of the things I've never heard mentioned so much in politics is Israel. Mhm. It appears to me as a
And something that is beyond just security and safety for the people of Israel, which is something that I politically dangerous for Trump.
And they're they're they're not all the same. They have different views. So there's a tech authoritarian group who want influence over the American political system because it's good for their businesses and because they don't get the point of democracy anyway and they think they should be in charge. There's a a kind of Christian nationalist group who think the United States should not be a secular state. It should be a Christian state and they
happening. But some of this is nothing to do with Trump. You know, we are now living in a world where the historical political system, um, the one that was built after 1945, some people call it the liberal world order, I don't really like that term because it sounds kind of mushy, but the the order that has existed since 1945, the one that was somewhat based on the UN, that was based
do. They become the military anchor that allows then for there to become political counterbalancing against Iran. That was the Kushner idea in the first Trump administration. And it seemed to
Trump is someone who cares a lot about people's opinions of him and he must have known that this would be politically unpopular to target around at this moment in time. I don't think so. I had a relationship with somebody with narcissistic personality disorder. So that's something over and above what I learned
it also affects labor rights because it erodess away labor rights. And this is a political choice that they have. Third, they monopolize knowledge production. And so they project this idea that they're the only ones that really understand how the technology works. And so if the public doesn't like it, it's
politician's a bad guy. Another context is this person is a threat to democracy.
politics . And when the bombs start to fall, the politics in both the target,
political divides and unified the opposition under this idea of removing the monarchy, removing dependence on the
politics is popular? Or do results like Wisconsin show that he's a liability?
politics , everything. Um, I think it would be a mistake to to give up hope that you could find something real,
politics , you know, there are I could you can look around and see
politicians that people liked and and certainly, you know, this media theorist who I was talking to, Josh Meyrowitz, he was talking about how, you know, the
political issue for Americans. It affects presidents, it affects Congress, and it becomes a manifestation in that
politicians and particularly presidents dealt with that reality considering the price at the pump is so important to
politics . There is a universal desire for generational change that we hear all the time. And I don't have to remind you
politics than I initially expected. How do you intake what has happened since the endorsement?
politics right now is Trump's ability to control the majority of the base, right?
politics right now is young conservatives. So it keep seems like when that ratchet needs like the next
politics that every time I come on to talk about the things I want to do for people in Michigan, everybody wants to
political violence as a way to express the political beliefs that they I suppose maybe don't feel they have other channels for or maybe that person is
politically. And so I began to think that the sort of new atheists who were kind of traveling the country at the
Politico reported that an ex-girlfriend accused him of rape, and the Washington Post reported that another ex-girlfriend
politicians writ large just don't spend a lot of time doing a spiritual metaphysical diagnosis of the country,
politician maybe even not Republican that you like the way they're acting or is this like a specific Trump phenomenon?
political destruction. And so this race has now become a a test of that thesis as to whether we can stand up to this
politics and Latino politics , probably nationally. I mean, all of that feels like a lot of weighty things that I think a lot of folks in the electorate
political polarization and makes democracy harder because people are hating each other now.
political system that was becoming almost suicidally stupid.
Politics is sort of um interesting and tragic in the sense that the the relationship between cause and
political uh cultural debate that's happening here as well as in the US.
political cloud to achieve that. Even though he's shot up in popularity, he is
politicians would look closely at this evidence that we've produced because it's an important study. It's a very big
politics and new guidance, new leadership at the top. President Zilinski is yet to respond directly to
politician in Ukraine. And even though rallies in his support are continuing,
politicians here smell voters are pushing in a certain way, you know, I don't think it is completely off the table in the future.