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The loss of trust in elites and institutions after wars, finance crises, COVID policy, and media credibility failures.
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Institutional breakdown
The loss of trust in elites and institutions after wars, finance crises, COVID policy, and media credibility failures.
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"...work, okay? Does that make sense? Then the third problem is breakdown of authority or institutions, okay? What kept the country together was the..."
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"And everyone was screwed, okay? Then you had COVID, right? COVID. Where the... The government, the elite, locked down the entire nation. Kids could..."
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"...he wrote a book called the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral brain okay bicameral mind is just a left and..."
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"...gets exhausted. Okay? He just breaks down. He has a nervous breakdown because it's too hard. Like, he wants people to be virtuous. He..."
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"...It was all just rape and murder. It was a complete breakdown of society. Why did this happen? There are many different theories. But..."
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"...a war, okay? That's the first problem. Second problem is the breakdown of narratives, okay? So, a nation is a fiction, a narrative that..."
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"...war for no reason, okay? Second is that you have a breakdown of the stories and narratives that bind the country together. So, no..."
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A June 2024 lecture arguing that the next American civil war will not repeat 1861.
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