The Marshall McLuhan Fallacy

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"This is a free country? You have to give it so loud?" "I happen to teach a class at Columbia called TV, media and culture. So I think that my insight into Mr. McLuhan will have a great deal of validity," says Joe Henrich. He'll be the Marshall McLuhan in this situation. And then just other stuff that we want to talk about with Joe, because, you know, when Dave and I talk about this stuff, often we're talking out of our ass.

Joe Henrich joins the podcast to tell us that we know nothing about his work and that how we got to teach a class in anything is absolutely amazing. We continue our discussion from Episode 17 about his critique of the social and behavioral sciences in "The Weirdest People in the World" and his work in small scale societies on fairness norms. We also talk about the weird American obsession with happiness, monkeys throwing cucumbers, and why some people reject "hyper-fair" offers of more than the half the pot in the ultimatum games.

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