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The Intellectual Wild South - Eric Weinstein

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Having Adult Conversations

Peter Teal is famous for saying that we should focus more on vertical growth or technology rather than horizontal growth or globalization. He wonders whether extending the fruits of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution to the entire world increases our chances of finding the next Einstein or Tesla. If we dream about a beautiful day in which we are all equal, economically at a highly developed and industrialized nation level, we may not realize that we're dreaming about ecological disaster. We have real problems about globalization, distribution, resource management that we're all wimping out of.

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