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Martin Gurri: The Crisis of Authority S1 E24

Meditations with Zohar

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The Enemies of American Socialism

I think American society is fundamentally not an envious one never has been every American that I have ever dealt with just wants to be allowed to succeed or fail in his own set of ambitions. So paradoxically we come our system of small differences where in a society that's well off and where people actually are doing very well compared to other countries. That exacerbates the the enmity and then you magnify that by the internet and by instagram influencers and so on like there's some study about how women who go on instagram like come off feeling anxious and depressed because all they see are models, he says. He thinks having elites who are understanding that the 20th century has ended

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