Episode Transcript: #1203 - Eric Weinstein
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And we're live are you gonna update the people out there? No, are you shut your phone off? Yeah, you're a professional
Try it sir. Good. See you. Well, what's going on?
Everything it's all pretty weird out there. It is very weird out there
We were just talking about how weird it is out there
before the podcast about how it just seems like
it's very difficult to keep together during these times and to keep a reasonable position and to
Handle all of the pressure of all the people that get upset at anything you do left or right in the middle
Centrist your two centrist your two left your two right
You're unreasonable. You're too reasonable. You're too nice. You're not nice enough. Wow suddenly. I feel like I'm in a marriage
Doesn't it seem like yeah, it does I think that this is why this is the era for disagreeability if you're not easily swayed
Because you're somehow insensitive enough that you just want to keep to first principles whatever it is that you believe
That seems to be the best hedge against getting swept up in the madness of others. How so well
I guess when I go met a cognitive I look at my yearning for
Group belonging and then I also watch my inability to belong to groups that say crazy things
Yeah, and so those are those are two conflicting feelings
I think sometimes when people look at me they say wow, you're really
Contrarian and you have an easy time standing up to you know the conventional wisdom. I don't think it's it's it's that true
I just think when those two things fight inside me
dialectically the disagreeability is so strong because it's protecting a
comprehensive view of the world and so since everything already kind of fits together fairly well, I would say I'm much