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And we've studied this on a whole slew of different political issues.

So if you want to move conservatives on issues like same-sex marriage or national health insurance, it helps to tie these liberal political issues to conservative values like patriotism and moral purity.

You know, it turns out that when we go to persuade somebody on a political issue, we talk like we're speaking into a mirror.

We don't persuade so much as we rehearse our own reasons for why we believe some sort of political position.

Climate change, together with political and economic troubles, are having an impact; they're adding up and stressing out cities and us, the people who live in them.

Take Demosthenes, a political leader and the greatest orator and lawyer in ancient Greece.

It's when that political solution has been achieved.

But today, I want to talk to you more about the political nature of time, for if time had a race, it would be white.

Just about the moment we were preparing to celebrate our post-racial future, our political conditions became the most racial they've been in the last 50 years.

But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn't have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.

But sometimes, our political conditions are so troubling that we don't know if we're living in the past or we're living in the present.

So for me, building a decentralized web means creating a safe harbor, a space where the rules are not written by big corporations and political parties, but by the people.

Because out of the pain of those deaths, we saw a social and political movement.

If we can focus our efforts, mobilize resources, galvanize the political will, that step change is possible.

It's the first of a series that's going to be done in response to the current political upheaval.

And all of you, as I start asking questions of Yuval, come up with your own questions, and not necessarily about the political scandal du jour, but about the broader understanding of: Where are we heading?

And the story said that, oh, what's happening is that the economy is being globalized, politics is being liberalized, and the combination of the two will create paradise on Earth, and we just need to keep on globalizing the economy and liberalizing the political system, and everything will be wonderful.

YNH: Yeah, the old 20th-century political model of left versus right is now largely irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local.

We probably need completely new political models and completely new ways of thinking about politics.

This makes the political system ineffective, because it has no control over the forces that shape our life.

And you have basically two solutions to this imbalance: either de-globalize the economy and turn it back into a national economy, or globalize the political system.

Do you see any underlying narrative or political philosophy in there that is at least worth understanding?

It doesn't care so much about the ordinary person anymore, and I think this diagnosis of the political disease is correct.

And you see it all over the world, that people, almost nobody in the political system today, has any future-oriented vision of where humankind is going.

And in Israel, where I come from, the hottest political vision of the present is: "Let's build the temple again."

So you seem to be a fan of global governance, but when you look at the map of the world from Transparency International, which rates the level of corruption of political institutions, it's a vast sea of red with little bits of yellow here and there for those with good institutions.

CA: Yuval, there's a belief among many technologists, certainly, that political concerns are kind of overblown, that actually, political leaders don't have that much influence in the world, that the real determination of humanity at this point is by science, by invention, by companies, by many things other than political leaders, and it's actually very hard for leaders to do much, so we're actually worrying about nothing here.

YNH: Well, first, it should be emphasized that it's true that political leaders' ability to do good is very limited, but their ability to do harm is unlimited.

So there is a built-in imbalance in the political system today which is very frustrating, where you cannot do a lot of good but you can still do a lot of harm.

And this makes the political system still a very big concern.

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