Difference between revisions of "18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal and Chapter 2020"

01:04:23 I think it's fantastic. I was stung by a because at first I was under the impression that we were still living in a world in which the Washington Post New York Times Harvard Stanford. What have you control the major conversation? But coming off of a recent date at the Ice House in Pasadena, which was a live gig with Peter Thiel. I started to realize how powerful this new movement is. We can reach anyone anywhere and I think that the Gated institutional narrative deserves to have the battle that it's been been bruising for what I now believe is that the Gated institutional narrative has been spoiling for a fight. We are quickly coming to the point where we have a David-and-Goliath moment. We now need to try to re-inflate the individuals who are uncorrelated who are not particularly good at taking orders don't like committee meetings who don't want to sign a loyalty oath, but who are passionately committed to the public good, and to some version of intellectual meta-honesty. We need these people to once again take up positions inside of the institutions, and I would like to, in fact, inflict myself on my favorite institution, Harvard University. The children of Harvard University have always been divided into White Sheep and Black Sheep, and there's no question that I represent Black Sheep Harvard, but I also think that one of the features of the University that makes its great is it has tolerated both its white sheep and it's black sheep. It is time to do battle with the oppressive structures that have been used to silence new ideas. If in my family I assert that there might be as many as three revolutionary Nobel-quality ideas in 1 clutch, how many ideas might there be suppressed if that is actually true? How many people are sitting on top of intellectual gold that never got its chance to see the light of day? What I'd like to do is to try to do battle with the disc to show you the