I feel you very strongly on this, like th cause obviously that's big in my wheelhouse. And i can tell that there are people who play around and say, when they do their own research,. or they kind of feel that sense about you can't trust everything. Means a lot of different things to people, but it's not undemocratic to suggest that an professional journalist might have a more accurate depiction of reality than the person in their garage. It's that the future's here, but it'm not evenly distributed, except its media literacy as is not evenly distributed. That's why do your own research.
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.