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 <h4>Podcast Notes Key Takeaways </h4> <ul><li>The life that we experience today is not the life that our primate DNA is used to experiencing; civilization happened quickly, and brains changed slowly  </li><li>Leadership is the ability to move something in a direction that the cultural forces are not already taking things </li><li>“More technology means better good times, but it also means badder bad times. And the scary thing is, if the good and bad keep exponentially growing, it doesn’t matter how great the good times become. If the bad gets to a certain level of bad, it’s all over for us.” – Tim Urban </li><li>Ideologies quickly become religions to their followers, at which point the solutions proposed by such ideologies can no longer be challenged </li><li>It is optimal to create a culture where no idea is sacred so each idea can be properly scrutinized </li><li>How you arrived at what you think is more important than what you think</li><li>There is social pressure to laugh off any emerging conspiracy theory that is being considered by the other team </li><li>An echo chamber is a collaborative culture of low-rung thinking based on a sacred set of ideas that cannot be challenged by anyone in the echo chamber </li><li>Politics pulls our psyches down to the primitive mind because politics was life or death for the 10,000 years that we evolved through human history</li><li>A lowercase “l” liberal culture must develop an immune system that stands up to people that want to exclusively play power games</li><li>The media is not penalized for lying; corporate media journalists are incentivized to lie because they are rewarded with clicks and not held accountable by their team for lying</li><li>The ideology of the social justice fundamentalist mob wants to tear apart the delicate workings of liberal democracy and shred the critical lines of trust </li><li>Threats to the inner workings of liberal democracy affect everything else that is built on top of it</li><li>Awareness without courage does very little </li><li>Criticism culture attacks the idea while cancel culture attacks the person</li><li>Many colleges are telling their students that there is a right set of views, mainly views based on woke ideology, and anyone who opposes this set of ideas is bad</li><li>The future is going to be weird and different; progress over the next several decades will not look like progress over the previous decades, because it never does  </li></ul><a href="https://podcastnotes.org/lex-fridman-podcast/tim-urban-tribalism-marxism-liberalism-social-justice-and-politics-lex-fridman-podcast-360/">Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.org</a><hr>Tim Urban is the author of the blog Wait But Why and a new book What’s Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: – House of Macadamias: https://houseofmacadamias.com/lex and use code LEX to get 20% off your first order – Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit – Athletic Greens: https://athleticgreens.com/lex to get 1 month of fish oil EPISODE LINKS: Tim’s new book: https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem Tim’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/waitbutwhy Tim’s Website: https://waitbutwhy.com Tim’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/timurban Tim’s TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5C149J9C0 PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ YouTube Full Episodes:

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