00:00 Welcome to the anti-hysteria show
01:00 I’m not freaked out about voter fraud, inflation, danger of vaccines, lockdowns were the biggest mistake in history, Beijing Biden, critical race theory, the great replacement, America is finished, China will rule the world, They’re going to defund the police!
04:00 A Year After George Floyd: Pressure to Add Police Amid Rising Crime, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/23/us/george-floyd-police.html
06:00 Calm down about inflation, https://fakenous.net/?p=2310
07:00 A Clockwork Orange, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
15:40 Randall Collins: Violence as Emotional Dominance, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e-jsnJ-yrw
25:00 Sociologist Alice Goffman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goffman
26:00 Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Dj9M71JAc
29:00 Amy Wax: A celebrated book about inner-city social breakdown doesn’t understand the meaning of the evidence it offers, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/amy-wax/negatively-sixth-street/
58:00 Running With the Predators, https://www.city-journal.org/html/running-predators-13714.html
1:17:20 Entrainment and the dance of conversation, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NG7FoC5XRo
1:27:00 Loser anger vs power anger, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139572
2:15:00 Napoleon Never Slept: How Great Leaders Leverage Social Energy: Microtechniques of success from Jesus to Steve Jobs, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139556
2:21:30 Tucker Carlson on America’s crime wave
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