When Everyone Stops Pretending w/ Steven Pinker (Episode #557)
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- Steven Pinker on why “common knowledge” is much stranger than it sounds
-The social machinery behind weddings, money, and power
-How a norm starts to die once someone breaks it and gets rewarded
-Trump as the great destroyer of polite restraints
-The institutions that lost the authority to enforce trust
-How new taboos appear without anyone admitting who created them
-T…
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