The US Military Is So Powerful, but the Us. Government Is Not.

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The us. is happy to bind technology companies that are getting too large and in ways that would damage the nation state, as we saw with ant corporation. And they are doing a lot of very centralized innovation as well, associated with long term planning. But just when did high speed trains start? They started, you know, we saw them emerge in europe. We've seen china now start to export them all around the world. And the us still doesn't have any high speed trains. All right? That system of government will just fail comprehensively in relationship to a more a to to a system that doesn't have that much internal in fighting, and that has the capacity to do

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

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