Gad Gad: I think it's worth spending a moment on the question of, like, how sort of irrational and fantastical are these fears? Verses not irational and pragmatic. So i sometimes think the very things that we should or could be doing to prevent some of the worst scenarios are the same things that we would do to kind of survive them if they were to happen. The more division of wealth we have, the more fear we have isolationism and alienation, the more brittle our systems become.
Have you ever found yourself sitting around a table at a luxury resort with five mega-rich strangers who want to know where you think they should build their doomsday bunkers? Absurd as it may sound, that actually happened to media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Today on the show he explains why the 0.01 percent are obsessed with escaping climate change, global pandemics, political upheaval ... and us.
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