I look at fox news, which has so shaped the dialogue around like democracy, and covid incredibly powerful. They understand pretty damn well how to, you know, how to change people's minds. So some of the things i are the most harmful our like social media. This a corporate, corporate manipulation of our data, but it's the wrong ends. You have to evaluate them according to the desirable ends. To date, our desirable end has been ever more consumption. Not everyone realizes that's insane. People and yours and my tribe do,. But i think that is still the cultural goal.
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes competition. What role will cooperation play in helping us solve our largest existential problems?
Farley explains the critical social dilemma humans face: How can we grapple with the paradox that individuals are better served to act selfishly, but cooperation among individuals makes everyone better off?
Additionally, Professor Farley helps us distinguish the difference between how a system works, and how we can understand and participate in changing a system.
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/07-josh-farley