Nice conversation. In this case very smart to keep it shorter, or I’d not have listened.
Been reading Robin long enough to take him seriously on culture, as clearly the TFR problem is real.
Bryan hit on the key point that (I’m paraphrasing from memory) in his writings Robin comes across as “we’re doomed” and implicitly that pre-modern cultures were better, as opposed to what I got out of this conversation which is closer to “there’s a chance we might be doomed, so we should be spending some time and effort trying to figure out how to build an asteroid deflector”.
I mean, I'm with you, but you can't expect every pundit to have exactly your views. You're probably not going to convince Caplan not to support open borders, given that he cared enough to write a book about it.
Nice conversation. In this case very smart to keep it shorter, or I’d not have listened.
Been reading Robin long enough to take him seriously on culture, as clearly the TFR problem is real.
Bryan hit on the key point that (I’m paraphrasing from memory) in his writings Robin comes across as “we’re doomed” and implicitly that pre-modern cultures were better, as opposed to what I got out of this conversation which is closer to “there’s a chance we might be doomed, so we should be spending some time and effort trying to figure out how to build an asteroid deflector”.
How do you operationalize "better"?
They have those. They're called conservatives and Christians.
It's having mixed success, but there's probably a few who will do it.
I mean, I'm with you, but you can't expect every pundit to have exactly your views. You're probably not going to convince Caplan not to support open borders, given that he cared enough to write a book about it.
Frankly, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.