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#191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Number One Aim of the Federal Government

Democracy emerged as an enlightenment era idea that we could all do a dialectic and come to understand what other people valued. And so this is why I believe Jefferson said if you could give me a perfect newspaper and a broken government or in paraphrasing or broken government perfect newspaper, I wouldn't hesitate to take the perfect newspaper. If they don't understand what's going on, they can't possibly make good choices.

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