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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Are We About to Kill the Goose That Has Been Laying These Golden Eggs?
i can make a case that we might just be about to kill the goose that has been laying these golden eggs. And i've thought about this a lot, watching people respond, for example, to some of the things that i've been talking about over the last few years. You know, there's a huge population of young and not so young people out there who are literally starving... They're psychologically starving for a positive but believable story. I think that's a much more powerful a solution then being pessimistic about the counter positions. We could make the assumption that we can have our cake and eat it. If that's what we want within the next hundred years.
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