the quality of a society should be judges by how it treats it's weakest and most vulnerable members.

@MrArdytube

3 жыл бұрын

Kurt I think this is a well intentioned, but ultimately saccharine cliche. Every society has to make difficult choices... which essentially become trade offs in which spending more money on one priority means spending less on another. The challenge is to try to find an appropriate balance to address the many various challenges we face

@kurtishannas2573

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrArdytube ya... it was a bit of a vague statement... I agree with what you said about difficult choices but I guess what I was getting at was they would be a lot easier if there wasn't the hugest gap in wealth distribution in all of history going on right now... and that includes the 1st world countries.... there's so much wealth in the western world but such a small group have appropriated most of it. A lot of it by regulatory capture. Sure things like health care and UBI seem out of this world with the way things are now but the system doesn't have to be the way it is now. It seems to be breaking down. Hopefully it will adapt to something more constructive.

@MrArdytube

3 жыл бұрын

kurtis hannas I agree with you kurtis. I find it enormously ironic that we could not afford to spend any money on health care back in 2009.... but suddenly there are seemingly endless trillions of dollars available

@kurtishannas2573

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrArdytube that very observation could be a real game changer if enough people have it.

@thomasd2444

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrArdytube - You have to learn how money works & keep the correct focus of attention : FDR wrote in his 1944 S O T U : . . . It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people-whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth-is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill housed, and insecure.

My daughter died shortly after becoming an acute nurse her whole life was about being the glue to hold communities together, She was also my hero! Whether it was her family, her work as a nurse, she knew the quality of how people are treated by how it's the weakest link is treated and stood up to people when they deserved it. Her humor and wit will be missed by her family. I'm hoping you will do a follow-up show? Thank you.

@awordonawing

3 жыл бұрын

So very sorry to hear about the loss of your daughter. God bless her. God be with you.

@jacquelinebernalmueller3673

3 жыл бұрын

My condolences to you and your family on the passing of your daughter. An angel of compassion is a better description than hero. May she rest in peace.

@lwandisomakwati3390

3 жыл бұрын

May she rest in peace

This is why we need to build up Africa. You cannot ignore the African Giants.

Honestly, I get that there are a lot of "extrovert" types who are used to setting the norms for social practice and default "comfort" levels, but there are throngs of introverted folk out here who are in no hurry to get back to face to face meetings, who are quite comfortable and productive working remotely, and who are happy to see the norms shifting a little our direction!

@chanimarie6753

3 жыл бұрын

🙋‍♀️

@a007girl

3 жыл бұрын

I'm having a good time.

@PatriciaMuirMaestroQ

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Until the pandemic, we have been introverts living in an extrovert world. We have had to adapt. Now extroverts are being forced to adapt which must be very difficult for them. I empathize with my extrovert friends and colleagues. However, I am not in a hurry to get back to the extrovert world.

@thomasd2444

3 жыл бұрын

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@khonieal

3 жыл бұрын

This is the training run. We should develop best practices and learn how to prepare. This all seems now that it was inevitable. Love the concept of weakest link and the impact on our future society. .

That was the very beginning. It’d be interesting to see what he’d say now.

@LyndseyMacPherson

3 жыл бұрын

ikr? This was only three weeks in.

@henrihelvetica5835

3 жыл бұрын

I just watched this for the 1st time yesterday and thought the exact same. And in fact, they would need at least two parts : too much happened, too many wheels fell off that had such impact on results. And to then watch the US turn things around at this very moment of writing this. What a cases study.

@anomimeso7009

2 жыл бұрын

and then...

It is so refreshing to hear interesting intelligent conversations! This will be my new go to place for sanity! I can barely tolerate the savagery of words that have overtaken this world! Having an opinion is a right, being persecuted for having one is a travesty.

"Take weak links seriously." Brilliant observations, as always.

I would love a follow-up, sitting here alone on 9/14/20.

Hello everyone who I saw the notification of joining the conversation! Nice to see that there are still some people out there to care enough that “you” and we are led to listen to Malcolm.

this podcast came out in march and already seems dated. now in August. I would love to hear Gladwell's current thoughts.

@jamesjensen5555

3 жыл бұрын

So many podcasts seem old even after a few weeks... I find myself looking for podcasts within a few days instead of months and hardly ever listen to those from a year or more... it just seems outdated.

@ienekevanhouten4559

3 жыл бұрын

Jean-Louis Rheault yes, me too. Such a great thinker. Original and humane.

@josephandrews4736

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@studiomacleod

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you record this in March and release it now? They blew this one

@ksc743

3 жыл бұрын

It actually aired on 9 April, but yes, definitely dated.

If we do not take into consideration and respect the powerful "balance" of existence we will pay the consequences.

This was great. Really appreciated the questions and information from you both.

Why can't we have great thinkers like Malcolm Gladwell in the white house as national advisors?

@hori166

3 жыл бұрын

Don't you know? MONEY! It's not about great ideas, but money and the power and control it provides.

@ImSimplyAHuman

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps a truly wise human would not be attracted to that job 😂

@johntravena119

3 жыл бұрын

Malcom Gladwell thinks the Chinese are good at math because they plant rice.

@judyives1832

3 жыл бұрын

John Travena That’s quite a misrepresentation of his comments on the development of some of the world’s societies.

@johntravena119

3 жыл бұрын

Judy Ives He has a fertile mind but he is nothing more than an armchair philosopher in my opinion www.litcharts.com/lit/outliers/chapter-8-rice-paddies-and-math-tests

The end message is wonderfully hopeful , inspiring and I think true. Thanks.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. A fine mind. I would think one thing we have to do after we get over this is seriously look at the funding of grievence studies in University. Surely we can put the money and personal involved to a better purpose.

A fascinating conversation between two very intelligent and informed Scholars and very smart audience, Loved it.

These 'Munk debates' delays in release are egregious.

@fmlalonde

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. The situation is changing so quickly that i think Malcolm’s answers would be different now.

@jschlaud6

3 жыл бұрын

Seriously. Was so confused until I realized this interview happened in April and wasn't posted till a week ago...making it irrelevant to all us in the present.

@galvint2

3 жыл бұрын

@@jschlaud6 Yes, at the 14 min mark he says the pandemic will only have a limited impact since it only lasted 6 weeks. That was 6 weeks in APRIL, when this interview happened. So this is a time capsule to the start of the pandemic, when nobody knew anything.

@AcchaAadmi

3 жыл бұрын

They release the podcast versions much sooner - we are up to July on the podcast

@cheddartheadventurer7511

3 жыл бұрын

@@AcchaAadmi good to know. I figured the delay was a pay wall incentive.

Gladwell lays out a great way of thinking about how to improve/protect our civilization. I would love an update from him.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long-stem rose Everybody knows

@sirdancer2

3 жыл бұрын

Thar she blows... And nobody knows But at least we can guess lest we get so pig-headed we hog the bread of Life. And say we know it All. Even more than Al..........

@smallstudiodesign

3 жыл бұрын

Greatest lyricist ever ...

@hassansaeed427

3 жыл бұрын

But most of us are not knowing what’s happening in the world and who is behind it .

@dunn1052

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Brian, He's one of my favourite poets. Anyway. I'm not so sure just who the good guys are, in the sense that collectively we tend rationally to decide between the two and in reality we create a schism between who is right and who is wrong.

@briancattani5109

3 жыл бұрын

@@dunn1052 I believe in these days that it is pretty obvious who are the bad and who are the good. Maybe some are afraid or hesitant to say for whatever reason, but republicans and trump are obviously evil. Fascism is obviously evil. Allowing 1% to rule the world is evil. The FED is evil. I am not afraid to say it. And we have all lost against them. They own us now. Fortunately I inherited some money and live peacefully in thailand with a great resort which has stayed open during the virus. My kids are all safe outside the US. 2 in canada where they have done much better and have been financially helped. One in Australia where the government helps out very nicely and one here who is well protected. America is condemned to misery until and unless they turn things around which will take decades if not centuries.

Yes, please, organizers: Another interview with Malcolm tout de suite, broadcast live and put up on KZread immediately, not only to make amends for the tardy release, but to show, dazzlingly, how quickly a complex situation, and the strategies for dealing with it, can change.

I seem to have fallen through the cracks as many others- no stimuli check- no unemployment & devastation galore

Thank you, Mr. Gladwell for vividly stating what we all must take to heart. Only when we are all doing well is any one truly doing well. What a great we and thriving civilisation we could enjoy if we act from this perspective. Why don't we have fulfilling our potential as a long term and immideate goal?

The public health is the public good. The weakest link is the least among us. It always comes back to compassion and care, love and generosity of spirit.

Superlative! Thanks all!

Why the three month delay in making this interview available? :(((

@anhleroy

3 жыл бұрын

OK yeah, I was wondering why the comments were so recent but Malcomb is talking about "April"

Somebody should get Malcom on the phone Today (January 2022) and ask him about what he thinks the world will look like after Covid Today. July 2020 was a completely different time with so many lies not yet told.

WOULD REALLY LOVE TO KNOW HOW DIFFERENT THIS CONVERSATION WOULD BE TODAY, 4 MONTHS LATER...

@gb4375

3 жыл бұрын

What are you suggesting? I don’t think what they are saying is solved in 4 years, let alone 4 months. This conversation is one of system.

Yes! The coffee shops! Thank you, Malcolm! Much appreciation and respect. 🇨🇦😉

I don’t care about Fareed Zakaria but I adore Malcolm Gladwell

I'm NOT racing back to the old ways!!

I enjoy your intelligence, and I appreciate that you speak in a manner that I can understand even though I am relatively uneducated… I have to say, I resent the politics thrown into this talk.

Employees everyone sitting at home to make PPE , nursing , assisting and so on so that we’re working together just like war time

Don’t forget the traumatic scar on the generation that suddenly became orphans directly after WWI due to our last pandemic. It created a very emotionally damaged generation that would go on to create yet two more generations that were heavily repressed emotionally. Our society’s expectations are very high currently because so many younger generations have never experienced any sort of mass crisis. I think the weird anti truth, anti science behavior is a sort of spoiled child effect of this inability to comprehend true danger because we are so disconnected from it. Sadly because of this and the lack of any cohesive leadership nationally, we seem hell bent on an academic reopening for our children. This, more than anything else, will be a tragedy of epic proportions that is absolutely going to result in another generation of orphans. It’s already been a story on the news here and there as a teenager losses both parents in quick succession. And absolutely it will be those already at the lowest strata of our country’s totem pole. It’s not going to be isolation because people are not really isolating.

@Yestopeace365

3 жыл бұрын

This is a prophetic and very concerning statement. I fear this is about to happen. I pray not!

11:03 is worth rewatching. This information was available in April 2020 and got completely ignored. Even today the public health apparatus in the USA is trying to lie about it.

This was wonderful. Thank you both very much... Courage.

Great points discussed unearthing some incredibly large ‘elephants in the room’. Engaging and intelligent debate.

Thank you, Malcolm. I adore the bit of facial fuzz 😙

Brilliant insights! The best solutions are the simplest if only we listen to doctors and scientists, stay objective, and do the right thing.

@vishaalbhatnagar3924

3 жыл бұрын

Worth every minute.

Our weakness is now out in the open, our enemies are also aware. I am a nurse. The “ system “ values everything but nurses. Our system of healthcare does not seek to cure, it is much like any other profit industry, we get repeat business, residual income.

Malcom Gladwell. He's just so much better than the rest of us. Where is that sarcasm button when you need it.

These are time-sensitive. Uploading this video months later makes no sense.

@josephososkie3029

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. The moderator is divaesque . Plus I’m disappointed after reading his outliers, that Gladwell didn’t really do a good job in making his case for weakest link

@MagdalenaShakti

3 жыл бұрын

Right?! My jaw dropped when they spoke of April. April feels centuries ago! Amazing days we are in, yes? It just keeps heating up. We are all in boiling water.

@teresajenkins9056

3 жыл бұрын

totally agree...in the video he is talking about the end of August and it is mid month August as I'm watching this..and this podcast says it was posted 3 weeks ago.

Excellent!!!...I like it!!!..thank you😊😊

Malcolm Gladwell is an international treasure.

@60-second-HACKS

3 жыл бұрын

Let's leave him buried then.

@asadfami7623

3 жыл бұрын

@@60-second-HACKS Please don't advertise your severe inferiority complex on public platforms.

Time to check back in with Gladwell again and see how he feels about the quality of the response by Cuomo and DeBlasio months later.

@carlwessels2671

3 жыл бұрын

To Micheal Berkovich. Cuomo especially is as bad as Trump,or even worse.

@yes0r787

3 жыл бұрын

LOL... What about the U.S.'s national response and the president?

I too can't wait for all the coffee shops to open

Gladwell skips over the entire 19th century, sanitation and clean drinking water movements.

@60-second-HACKS

3 жыл бұрын

He's not well-read in the histories that he draws upon. His uncertainty is palpable.

@thomasd2444

3 жыл бұрын

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Solidarity is to be or not to be....this is the question / answer 💞

I'd love for these two to have another conversation today.

Listening to this in August... I wonder if MG is still optimistic. :)

Fascinating dialog. Interesting to think about how it would have gone if Mr Gladwell was a pessimist......

I just stumbled on this and would be interested in a redux of the conversation this many months later? The isolation aspect and Mr Gladwell’s thoughts with the benefit of 4-6 more months.

@gmaureen

3 жыл бұрын

Isolation is not a problem if you have a few resources and know how to entertain yourself...crafts/games/writing/photography/books/exercise, etc. If you're dependent on other people isolation will create an issue.

Really interesting conversation, thank you both for having it. An aside I know.One of the things I continue to see, is the lack of mention of re-usable PPE,,, autoclaves do work to kill viruses.

It’s always been a weakest link game, but it’s just that those who were only focusing strength have been incredibly lucky for entirely too long. The weakest link is always a giant risk, it’s just not been a problem anyone who considered themselves above everything took all that seriously.

This nurse totally gets it. Thanks, Malcolm.

Despite a few of the observations that turned out to be understated after 4 months of hindsight, is also an interesting commentary on the nature of the world economy with the Weak Link and Strong link economic comparison. How completely blindsided the entire planet seemed to have been with the Just-in-time lean delivery model. How flat footed every country ended up being even at the time of this podcast.

I wonder how his answers would be different as we are creeping up on 6 months of this now, not just 3 weeks when this was taped.

@SuperManning11

3 жыл бұрын

jzratk Johnson Yes...it’s kind of amazing to see how things evolve week after week. My guess is that we’ve got more trouble ahead. Interesting times, for sure.

Social relationships will go back to something pretty much the same as they were prior to the crisis. We aren't blank slates. We are a social species. You don't change our innate human psychology in six months, a year or two years. Our evolutionary instinct to be cautious and fearful of strangers might impact our long term culture than the short term restrictions. Hotel and hospitality will be different in some ways but return. Not all of the same players will be in place. Companies will fall. New companies will replace them. Often with the old companies not paying off all of their legacy costs. The new players won't bail them out. Someone will take it in the shorts. Possibly shareholders. Likely suppliers and workers.

@ksc743

3 жыл бұрын

The world economy took about 10 years to recover from the 1918 spanish flu. It will be interesting to see how we recover from this.

@seanwebb605

3 жыл бұрын

@@ksc743 Earlier today I was watching a history video and it turns out that after the plague migration moved to the highly infected areas and not away from it. This idea that everyone is going to search for a home out in the country and make their own butter doesn't match historical responses to much larger and deadlier epidemics. However, with the technological advances we also can't assume that the response and recovery will look much like past responses and recoveries. My employer recently announced a 50% drop in revenues and a 54% drop in profits. For now they seem comfortable absorbing the losses and maintaining head count. If recovery is ten years then I'll probably be out of a job before that. NBC Universal has announced a labour force reduction of about 10% even though they lost far less revenue in their media division than my employer. Perhaps Canadian employers are gentler and kinder than American employers? Short term maybe.

@ksc743

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanwebb605 yes totally. Also, before the 1918 Spanish Flu, was the First World War 1914 - 1918, so they had a lot of hardship to recover from. Science is so much more advanced now, but, there are so many more people on the planet and we all have much more to lose. Materialistically anyway.

@seanwebb605

3 жыл бұрын

@@ksc743 Don't look at me. I haven't had a proper haircut or new shoes in over six months.

@ksc743

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanwebb605 I can relate! I live in South Africa and we are really battling as a country because we were in trouble even before this pandemic. Worst hit is the entertainment industry and restaurants and hotels. Not to mention tourism. They've also outright banned alcohol and cigarettes here - doesn't bother me luckily but I have some friends taking serious strain! I think Gladwell may be correct in that we'll have to go back to some kind of normalcy sooner or later. We'll just have to be careful with social distancing and masks until we have this thing under some sort of control. Bill Gates warned the world in 2015 that another pandemic was waiting in the wings but humans - especially our governments - are so ego-centric they were never going to put people before money. What a time we are living through. Not my favourite!

Less we forget ; Alexander the great was brought down by a mosquito bite!

@yes0r787

3 жыл бұрын

Good point, thanks for reminding us.

The next time I hear the term. The new normal....

@PatriciaMuirMaestroQ

3 жыл бұрын

Evan Watson Or, the “desire/need to get back to normal”. I, for one, do not want to go back to a dysfunctional form of what was considered to be normal.

Thumbs down for an old podcast with a recent date. I thought I was listening to something relevant to what is happening in the world right now.

@60-second-HACKS

3 жыл бұрын

Malcolm is rarely relevant in real time.

@Huddie400

3 жыл бұрын

It’s only a month old. It IS relevant.

@donaldsmith3926

3 жыл бұрын

Do get to judge his prognostication powers in real-time.

@ksc743

3 жыл бұрын

@@Huddie400 it's 4 months old. 9 April podcast.

@AriesRising4444

3 жыл бұрын

His points are still extremely valid.

Covid is a very fluid situation. You need to post videos sooner otherwise these videos may already be out of date. Please post when this dialogue happened in the description box.

Love Malcolm Gladwell. Great thought leader.

Amazing discussion....🙏🙏

Watching from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Malcolm Gladwell -- my favorite geek (and I love geeks)

This is so great!

I probably don't agree with Gladwell on anything politically. But he's thoughtful and doesn't seem particularly ideological.

@needparalegal

3 жыл бұрын

All I ask is honesty. Honesty is generally only found among "Right Wingers" like TULSI GABBARD.

It is most interesting to read Gladwell than listen Gladwell....

"We've moved to very, very rare crises. I'm far more concerned about Global Warming than I am about global pandemics..."

I wonder how this interview would sound today August 12th, 2020. And is it wrong I want to look closer over Malcolm's shoulder and look at his bookshelf.

Great discussion!

Bargain is not a bargain if it's not available to us we need to bring manufacturing back home where it belongs

@rhino5100

3 жыл бұрын

The American public is used to cheap goods. American wages are stagnant at the same time (relatively unchanged relative to cost of living and inflation since 1978). Who is going to pay those prices for goods produced in the US? Americans aren't going to work for the wages that Chinese or Southeast Asians will not to mention the dangerous conditions some of them face to produce those goods on the cheap. If American companies actually had to pay their workers an actual living wage then perhaps we could afford to pay what it costs to make things in the US. McDonalds at one time had instructions on a website for employees detailing how to apply for public assistance. They were admitting that their employees cannot live on the wages McDonalds pays and showing employees how to turn to the taxpayer to make ends meet. (cough * Corporate Socialism * cough) It used to be a taunt to tell a poor person to "get a job". Now you can have a job or even two jobs and be unable to meet basic living expenses. When people in Silicon Valley with college degrees and 9to5 jobs are living out of their cars because rents are too high then its hard to tell someone that getting a job will solve their problems. Remember when Representative Katie Porter grilled the CEO of Wells Fargeo about the wages they pay a bank teller vs the costs of living? Instead of making any acknowledgement that the math didn't add up, the CEO responded "Well, one day she could have my job!" What kind of answer is that? Someone should work for starvation wages because "one day I could be CEO". If workers aren't valued, paid a living wage, are able to afford health insurance so an accident or illness doesn't take then right back to square one (66.5% of all personal bankruptcies in the US in 2019 were related to health conditions - either crushing medical costs or being unable to work for medial reasons....that 2/3rds of all Personal US Bankruptcies due to the lack of adequate affordable healthcare).... just bringing manufacturing back home is not a realistic idea. We'd have to bring the wage slaves in from Asia to work for those abusive salaries and in those dangerous conditions along with the manufacturing plants, unless Americans were willing to pay more for those goods. Fat chance of that. www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/instead-living-wage-mcdonalds-tells-workers-sign-food-stamps/309625/

@jessejames4960

3 жыл бұрын

We live in a rapacious oligarchy and they could care less about whether we have godd health care or not. It's not profitable to have warehouses with paper mask and Nurses.

I am continually amazed at how easy those that have risen to the top of the intellectually recognizable heap dismiss the will and insight of the people who vote. Intellectuals seem to believe that everything that has been accomplished to bring society the advancements it has today was somehow done without the PEOPLE. So when the people vote for someone they believe is the better leader - if that leader does not meet the standards and criteria contrived by the self righteous ego of the intellectuals, then the PEOPLE are dismissed as pawns or victims to be saved from themselves by Intellectual thought..

What an amazing powder puff letdown from Gladwell.

Thank you for producing this program with great thinkers. Is there a way we can have a current interview now that we are 6 months into this crisis? Thank you.

Thank you

If America focuses all of its efforts on Baltimore, Detroit, South side Chicago, and Flint, then it could rise to the level that it says it is.

Awesome!

highly doubt ppl will be running back to offices anytime soon. work remote will become the default for most professional disciplines that do not rely on complex machinery / utilities in a set location

@paulmeyer5482

3 жыл бұрын

Only a small percentage of people can tolerate at home work. Socially most people do not have the mettle.

I think the best case scenario is we learn something from this. We do not have a good track record in learning from the mistakes of the past. We have a terrible track record of planning for the future. I do have an odd optimism that we may have finally learned our lesson from war. You just cannot win them. There is no winner. He touches on the Elephant in the room; how healthy we are, smoking and life style choices, and obesity, Worst case scenario and I worry about our children is this move towards no more human to human interaction. Kids go to school on Zoom, they use a driverless car network to go where I have no idea because there is no reason to go anywhere. The less these kids go outside and interact the more we loose in how they know how to work with each other. In how they develop relationships. I'm thinking of Japan. That country is in crisis from a declining population.

And here I thought it would be a funny spoof of Detective Monk on COVID19 😂😂😂

As of 2020 St.George's University School of Medicine in Grenada, W.I. (my own Alma Mater - the "Harvard of the Caribbean" as we used to say when we were one of the first classes to matriculate there in the early 1980's when we were not even sure that we would be allowed to do residency or apply for US licensure) provides more first year residents to U.S. medical residency training programs than any other medical school in the world and there are more practicing docs in the US that are graduates of St.George's than any other med school in the world. This is largely due to the fact that US medical schools do not accept enough med students and do not graduate enough MD's to fill the existing residency training programs. Why is that and what does it say about the US medical training system - if anything. It just seems strange that a Caribbean medical school is the most prolific engine re supplying doctors to the US - more prolific, in fact, than any US medical school - bar none. I'm sure it has something to do with money -as per usual - I just can't say what.

It now seems silly that we thought that increasing our supply of respirators and ventilators was such a priority. The survival rate of those who needs to be ventilated is just horrendous. Definitely try to avoid infection. We have to look at the stats differently. Currently we focus too much on infection and resolved. Resolved being either dead or passed the infection and recovered. Recovered doesn't look anything like recovery from a bad bought of seasonal Influenza. We are talking about disability, loss of function and vitality.

This was obviously recorded sometime in April (he kept saying he was under lockdown for just 3 weeks) and he was very optimistic that things would be very different by end August! Would like to know what he things now that we are in August and 163,000 in the US are dead and after that motorcycle rally in South Dakota they now say the death will reach 400,000 by Jan 2021 !

Malcom Gladwell is so nice to listen to. Wonderful.

Can anyone tell me what’s on Malcolm Gladwell’s bookshelf?

@postscriptum9856

3 жыл бұрын

Books

8 Months here in Aust >> where the state borders have been closed and Aussies facing one restriction or another Fines are like 5k if person's are seen/suspected to be contributing to the spread by not following restrictions >>> in my sate its work /buy food and home that's it!

First time watching this channel but damn this host is begging for Marx to save us.

@rhino5100

3 жыл бұрын

Was the New Deal Marxism? It brought us out of the Depression and ended the vicious cycle of boom and bust. Is Social Security Marxism? Is Medicare/Medicaid Marxism? What we have now isn't capitalism. Too big to fail? Round after round of bailouts for the wealthiest corporations ....so often and predictable that banks and insurance companies actually calculate the bailout into their algorithms? Companies expecting taxpayers to subsidize their workers low wages? Do you actually believe the the United States is a shining example of capitalism? www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/instead-living-wage-mcdonalds-tells-workers-sign-food-stamps/309625/

@truthseeker3397

3 жыл бұрын

@@rhino5100 America is not capitalism but it would be better off if it was. A lot of the example you mentioned hurt the poor and minorities disproportionally.

@rhino5100

3 жыл бұрын

@@truthseeker3397 Social Security and Medicaid hurt the poor and minorities? Those are the only two examples I mentioned that are with us now..

@paulmeyer5482

3 жыл бұрын

Marxism is failure personified.

@rhino5100

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulmeyer5482 Yes, and taxpayers bailing out the rich over and over and over again and stripping out regulations that prevent corruption and self-dealing by people already in power is no recipie for success either. Its Socialism for the rich and is anti-democratic because it means your effort and ideas mean nothing compared to your position in society already (classism). The wealth gap is widening in the US. That kills off the middle class and brings us closer to conditions of pre-revolutionary France than it does to anything like greatness.

I’d like to hear a new analysis now. January 2021

This is why I was always benched on the ⚽ team. We simply need a good coach.

Malcolm was calling this problem before the current crisis - the tools for making sense of the world are redundant in world of Mystery....

I’d like to ask Mr. Gladwell to explain the peculiar phenomenon that we shut down entire economies and countries for a virus that’s really only dangerous to elderly and ill - and, PLoT TwISt: we utterly failed to adequately protect the elderly!

Ummm, why did it take 3.5 months to upload this interview??

A healthy population must have variety. Variety is a measure of population health.

Interesting focus on the medical and also macro/ global political and economic virus issues. Coming from a small, isolated island community, the response to date is dependence on distant ‘big’ government, science( pharama) , health institutions and public subsidy, which are not sustainable in significant economic shutdown , unless there is a massive redistribution of wealth and power and a focus on micro- economic and social re-modelling/ re- invention, with a stark absence of creative leadership at community level and failure at national level in big and/ or authoritarian countries, due to dependence on big and dysfunctional, over-centralised Government and institutions, except in smaller countries that have performed dramatically better.

Gladwell loves to put narrative over evidence. During this crisis he is willing to make bold predictions where true intellectuals caution against broad predictions and forecasts.

Great analogy with soccer - the weakest link even though I cant understand who still watches soccer Post Covid.

Weakest links indeed. Our weakest links were the politicians and public health officials who did not shut the flights down in January, who did not heed Taiwan's warning on Jan 1 and seeing their rapid and comprehensive response that they took this seriously, and had this stupid debate on masks even though not one person would want anyone not wearing a mask around them if in the operating room. Our weakest links are the naive rationalism that constantly comes into play, when the precaution principle says otherwise, and the way we increasingly introduce fragility into our lives because of increased connectivity and complexity of our way of life. Sometimes in certain situations, you need to solve the weak links by having no links at all, so that the disruption ends where it simply cannot go further - the final hedge to a disruption whose magnitude and disruptive power would doom us if underestimated.

I think we have focused on treating the symptoms or health issue instead of eating properly to avoid getting one of the health issues mentioned such as diabetes and hypertension.

Thanks for the truly quality-idea-rich discussion. It is a rare treat. One comment that makes me pause for further consideration: that our world class institutions aren't helping here. That we haven't shored up the middle and are now suffering in part for it; I agree. But high fallootin intellectual pursuit, of which I consider R&D a part, and practical sand bagging of our systemic weak spots are not mutually exclusive. Would there be a Moderna and its messenger RNA tech if not for the activity at places like Harvard, MIT, and Stanford? There is a bit of an anti-intellectual, anti-college, anti-formal training attitude in some circles that I fear has potential to hurt the preparedness of our future generations if it becomes contagious. That we need more development of trade schools, small community institutions like small hospitals, I'm in total agreement. There was a debate once, Dubois vs Washington-Carver, along similar lines. I would hope that today, the issue is moot.

we have NOT investing in the future ! we are living and investing only for the present or past. we know what the future could bring but are not reacting/planning for it! we know more pandemics are coming, we know the climate is changing, we know most ecosystems are in decline, we know many of our people are uneducated- and we do nothing!!!!! yes it will mean more taxes but that is also called investing.

@4thworldwilderness390

3 жыл бұрын

Wow you are so lost in the weeds, I can't even begin to start the process of breaking down how wrong your worldview is. 😥 television and media propaganda are the greatest tools for mind control ever created. You should trust nothing that the world governments and corporate/state media and U.N. and Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission and CFR World Economic Forum and Ivy league and public indoctrination camps aka "schools" say, not one bit. Every article and narrative should be questioned. Just going along with mainstream "consensus" is what a non-thinking conformist does, and there's entire herds of them. Don't be part of the herd, they are running off a cliff. You may label me with any slur you want, I am 100% right when I say that the same people who want to forcibly inject you with an experimental substance want to create a global network connecting all world governments under an umbrella of a single global organization, and have been behind many of the events throughout history to make this come about. Event 201, agenda 21, Gavi-Gates and Operation Warpspeed. If you don't even know what those references are, you are oblivious to reality. Wake up already, it's almost too late at this point.

@4thworldwilderness390

3 жыл бұрын

Look up "world economic forum and the great reset" and "agenda 21 and sustainable development"

@thomasd2444

3 жыл бұрын

You need to learn how our money works www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/taxes-for-revenue-are-obsolete.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/dX1ppaiKiK3ek6Q.html . Banking...Not...textbooks tell you kzread.info/dash/bejne/iW1r1ZWzkqmxpsY.html . How MMT Actually Works w/Warren Mosler kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZZqamtOcZZjOnpM.html . Intro #TMMOMMT

@markschuette3770

3 жыл бұрын

@@thomasd2444 maybe you need to learn how the environment works. all wealth comes from the environment.

@natalial007

3 жыл бұрын

@@4thworldwilderness390 hah, I didn't realize they let you use the internet in the mental institution, but yeah, good for you!