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HomeGrown Humans - Daniel Schmachtenberger - Existential Risk

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The Big Time Baddies Are Out to Get Us

There was obviously already a trend that had been strengthening for some time since like post Vietnam on increase left right polarization and also increase kind of pro versus the anti institutional or most standard model anti standard model orientation. Obviously we saw this pickup heavily with social media because of the nature of how social media works but in this timeframe we saw it pick up a lot. For every, like the whole Instant zeitgeist washing on it's not a lab leak it couldn't have been a lab leak the science is settled if you're doing somewhere kind of xenophobic conspiracy theory. That was a really radical push in the zeitgeist. And there were more smart people that bought the standard model narrative without realizing

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