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Doomberg: Energy is Life and We Are Killing It

From the New World

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Are You Genuinely Held and Politely Expressed?

When you have these kind of silos of ideas, this means two things. One it means that you have a worse outlook of the world around you and what's more is that you can't detect them. This is kind of this is especially the case against censorship, right? Or one of the cases against censorship. You want to know what your political opponents are saying - even if they disagree with you. And we just have less and less of that today. The outcome of that is not good. History would show that whenever you have the censoring of somebody based on their composition of their team jersey,. as long as they're on your team, they can get away with a lot.

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Speaker 2
And that's kind of like language that's very appealing to me, but I'm just going to try to like break it down for the audience. Right. So basically when you have these kind of silos of ideas, this means two things. One it means that you have a worse outlook of the world around you, which is bad enough about by itself. But what's more is that you have these silos that are also separate from you. So you can't detect them. You don't know what's happening. You don't know what power is building. You don't know what's coming. You don't know the kind of political ferment that's going on in circles that you have hidden to you. And this could possibly be quite scary. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1
Like they'll all just show up in your front lawn someday and you won't know why they're there.
Speaker 2
Yeah. This is kind of this is especially the case against censorship, right? Or one of the cases against censorship. You want to know what your political opponents are saying. You want to know even if they disagree with you, even if you'd rather they not believe that that you want to know what's happening. You don't want to kind of low information environment where the changes are just sudden and drastic. Yeah.
Speaker 1
Our sort of phrase, which we may have stolen from Grant Williams, I forget where we learned it, but is any of you authentically held and politely expressed is at least worth listening to? And those two factors, those two descriptors are important. Like it authentically held and politely expressed. I don't need to listen to somebody who's yelling at me. And I don't need to listen to somebody who is being deceptive. But I am interested in listening to somebody who is expressing an authentically held view politely. For example, we had a very polite disagreement about the impact of currency on the outsourcing of US manufacturing. That's fine. We could agree to disagree politely. We could express this from viewpoints. Maybe one of us changes our mind slightly and then we move on. That's the literal definition of civil discourse. And we just have less and less of that today. And the outcome of that is not good. History would show that whenever you have the censoring of somebody based on their composition of their team jersey, for example, in the US, politics, as long as they're on your team, they can get away with
Speaker 3
a lot.
Speaker 1
The outcome of that is one party will get in complete control and then take it out on their enemies. And this is how dictatorships happen. Right.

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