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A Case for Anarchism: Governments Should Not Exist | Michael Malice and Lex Fridman

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At its best, I think it's possible to have representation.", 'start': 17.749, 'duration': 7.145}, {'end': 28.257, 'text': "Can you imagine if like you have an attorney? You're like, oh, you can't have the attorney you want.", 'start': 25.274, 'duration': 2.983}, {'end': 31.179, 'text': "You're gonna have this guy who you absolutely hate, who you share no values with why??", 'start': 28.497, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 32.983, 'text': 'because he drives.', 'start': 32.142, 'duration': 0.841}, {'end': 38.607, 'text': 'i mean leaders, political leaders and political representation drive the discourse like we.', 'start': 32.983, 'duration': 5.624}, {'end': 39.188, 'text': 'you know.', 'start': 38.607, 'duration': 0.581}, {'end': 42.811, 'text': 'uh, the majority of people voted for him or whatever.', 'start': 39.188, 'duration': 3.623}, {'end': 48.295, 'text': 'however, however, you define that, and now we get to have a discussion.', 'start': 42.811, 'duration': 5.484}, {'end': 50.858, 'text': 'well, was this the right choice?', 'start': 48.295, 'duration': 2.563}], 'summary': 'Debating the problems with political representation and leadership.', 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115.03, 'duration': 0.441}, {'end': 116.891, 'text': 'It started out geographically.', 'start': 115.491, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 118.172, 'text': 'It still is geographic.', 'start': 117.492, 'duration': 0.68}, {'end': 118.472, 'text': 'It was both.', 'start': 118.192, 'duration': 0.28}, {'end': 119.813, 'text': 'It started off as ideas as well.', 'start': 118.532, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 123.795, 'text': "But like there's a, it's, it was intricately, I mean, that's the way humans are.", 'start': 120.013, 'duration': 3.782}, {'end': 126.596, 'text': "There's, I mean, there was no internet.", 'start': 123.835, 'duration': 2.761}, {'end': 127.797, 'text': 'So it was.', 'start': 126.976, 'duration': 0.821}, {'end': 135.161, 'text': 'you were geographically in the same location and you signed a bunch of documents and then you kind of debated and you wrote a bunch of stuff and then you agreed on it.', 'start': 127.797, 'duration': 7.364}, {'end': 140.443, 'text': 'okay, you understand 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2.241}, {'end': 168.277, 'text': "And this idea of like, if you don't like it, you have to move.", 'start': 166.315, 'duration': 1.962}, {'end': 169.437, 'text': "That's not what freedom means.", 'start': 168.537, 'duration': 0.9}, {'end': 171.719, 'text': 'Freedom means I do what I want, not what you want.', 'start': 169.718, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 173.38, 'text': "So if you don't like it, you move.", 'start': 171.859, 'duration': 1.521}, {'end': 177.824, 'text': "Okay, just to put some, I don't like words and terms.", 'start': 174.301, 'duration': 3.523}], 'summary': 'Challenges the idea of being subordinate to an imaginary, invisible monster created 250 years ago and emphasizes the meaning of freedom as doing what one wants.', 'duration': 28.798, 'max_score': 149.026, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE149026.jpg'}, {'end': 218.391, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 194.333, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 206.622, 'text': 'Can you try to paint the utopia that an anarchist worldview dreams about? The only people who describe anarchism as utopia are its critics.', 'start': 194.333, 'duration': 12.289}, {'end': 213.867, 'text': 'If I told you right now, and I wish I could say this factually, that I have a cure for cancer, that would not make us a utopia.', 'start': 207.343, 'duration': 6.524}, {'end': 216.33, 'text': 'That would still probably be expensive.', 'start': 214.948, 'duration': 1.382}, {'end': 218.391, 'text': 'We would still have many other diseases.', 'start': 217.03, 'duration': 1.361}], 'summary': "Anarchist utopia isn't a reality, even with a cure for cancer.", 'duration': 24.058, 'max_score': 194.333, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE194333.jpg'}, {'end': 303.355, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 268.36, 'weight': 0.802, 'content': [{'end': 273.606, 'text': "Are you saying, like people who are actually like free thinkers, don't need leaders kind of thing?", 'start': 268.36, 'duration': 5.246}, {'end': 274.253, 'text': 'Sure.', 'start': 274.073, 'duration': 0.18}, {'end': 277.615, 'text': "But like, but like you don't, okay.", 'start': 274.273, 'duration': 3.342}, {'end': 285.681, 'text': "So do you acknowledge that there's some value in authority in different subjects?", 'start': 277.635, 'duration': 8.046}, {'end': 292.005, 'text': "So what what that means is I don't mean authority, somebody who's in control of you, but you're doing the definition switch.", 'start': 285.721, 'duration': 6.284}, {'end': 295.066, 'text': 'because- I am, I am.', 'start': 293.925, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 295.847, 'text': "You're right, you're right.", 'start': 295.106, 'duration': 0.741}, {'end': 296.408, 'text': "It's unfair.", 'start': 295.907, 'duration': 0.501}, {'end': 297.529, 'text': 'Okay, that was bad.', 'start': 296.488, 'duration': 1.041}, {'end': 298.93, 'text': "But that's what they do.", 'start': 297.549, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 299.611, 'text': "That's their trick.", 'start': 298.99, 'duration': 0.621}, {'end': 303.355, 'text': "And this is one of the useful things, by the way, let's just total sidebar.", 'start': 300.191, 'duration': 3.164}], 'summary': 'Discussion about authority and free thinking, acknowledging value in different subjects.', 'duration': 34.995, 'max_score': 268.36, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE268360.jpg'}], 'start': 86.408, 'title': 'Reimagining citizenship and representation', 'summary': 'Discusses the flaws in democracy and advocates for representation based on ideas, emphasizing the need for leaders to be chosen by qualified individuals. it ultimately advocates for an anarchist worldview to address fundamental societal problems.', 'chapters': [{'end': 349.071, 'start': 86.408, 'title': 'Reimagining citizenship and representation', 'summary': 'Discusses the outdated concept of citizenship based on geography and advocates for representation based on ideas, highlighting the flaws in democracy and the need for leaders to be chosen by qualified individuals, ultimately advocating for an anarchist worldview that aims to address fundamental societal problems.', 'duration': 262.663, 'highlights': ['The concept of citizenship based on geography is outdated in a post-cell phone world, advocating for representation based on ideas. Outdated concept of citizenship based on geography, advocating for representation based on ideas.', 'Highlighting the flaws in democracy, emphasizing that those who need leaders are not qualified to choose them. Flaws in democracy, emphasizing the lack of qualification of those who need leaders to choose them.', 'Advocating for an anarchist worldview that aims to address fundamental societal problems and improve overall well-being. Advocacy for an anarchist worldview aiming to address societal problems and improve well-being.']}], 'duration': 262.663, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE86408.jpg', 'highlights': ['Advocating for an anarchist worldview aiming to address societal problems and improve well-being.', 'Outdated concept of citizenship based on geography, advocating for representation based on ideas.', 'Flaws in democracy, emphasizing the lack of qualification of those who need leaders to choose them.']}, {'end': 553.848, 'segs': [{'end': 509.897, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 467.643, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 478.145, 'text': "but they view and they're right because the ant's life is very ephemeral and cheap that it's more important to continue this mass population that one individual ant live.", 'start': 467.643, 'duration': 10.502}, {'end': 480.366, 'text': 'Like, bees are another even better example.', 'start': 478.566, 'duration': 1.8}, {'end': 483.227, 'text': 'The honeybee, when they sting, they only sting once and they die.', 'start': 480.406, 'duration': 2.821}, {'end': 488.448, 'text': "And they do it gladly because it's like, okay, this community is much more important than me, and they're right.", 'start': 483.567, 'duration': 4.881}, {'end': 490.268, 'text': 'Yeah, okay.', 'start': 489.668, 'duration': 0.6}, {'end': 491.189, 'text': 'So, fine.', 'start': 490.328, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 494.17, 'text': "Let's forget— I'm being pedantic, but it's important, I think.", 'start': 491.369, 'duration': 2.801}, {'end': 496.211, 'text': "I'm not just being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.", 'start': 494.21, 'duration': 2.001}, {'end': 503.014, 'text': "But there's something beautiful that I won't argue about, because I do—there's an interesting point there about individualism of ants.", 'start': 496.291, 'duration': 6.723}, {'end': 509.897, 'text': "I do think they're more individual 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used as examples to illustrate self-sacrifice and the prioritization of the community over individual life, emphasizing the emergence of necessary structures in a functional society.', 'The comparison between the behavior of ants and the potential for a stable society without centralized control is further explored, with a reference to the concept of anarchism and an example of Twitter as a beautiful illustration of anarchism.']}], 'duration': 203.256, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE350592.jpg', 'highlights': ['The comparison between the behavior of ants and the potential for a stable society without centralized control is further explored, with a reference to the concept of anarchism and an example of Twitter as a beautiful illustration of anarchism.', 'Offloading effort to professionals like accountants, lawyers, and doctors is acknowledged as valuable.', 'The concept of emergent behavior in society is discussed, comparing human behavior to that of ants and bees, highlighting the potential for a stable society without centralized control.']}, {'end': 890.443, 'segs': [{'end': 608.758, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 578.962, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 583.944, 'text': 'And despite there being so many different languages, uh, lingua franca emerge.', 'start': 578.962, 'duration': 4.982}, {'end': 586.426, 'text': 'you know people, the language that everyone is latin.', 'start': 583.944, 'duration': 2.482}, {'end': 592.091, 'text': 'even in north korea they refer to the fish and the different animals by the latin scientific.', 'start': 586.426, 'duration': 5.665}, {'end': 593.572, 'text': 'uh, no one decided this.', 'start': 592.091, 'duration': 1.481}, {'end': 603.34, 'text': "sure, there's an organization that sets a binomial nomenclature, but there's no gun to anyone's head referring to, uh, seamoth as a pegasus species.", 'start': 593.572, 'duration': 9.768}, {'end': 608.758, 'text': 'and when you think about how amazing language is, And some in other contexts would say like, well,', 'start': 603.34, 'duration': 5.418}], 'summary': 'Lingua franca, like latin, is used globally for naming species.', 'duration': 29.796, 'max_score': 578.962, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE578962.jpg'}, {'end': 754.102, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 713.877, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 715.698, 'text': "Aren't you afraid that people are gonna pee in the pool?", 'start': 713.877, 'duration': 1.821}, {'end': 724.26, 'text': "that's not as my big concern as mass incarceration, as the fact that the police can steal more money than burglars can,", 'start': 716.736, 'duration': 7.524}, {'end': 734.405, 'text': 'the fact that innocent people can be killed with no consequences, the fact that war can be waged and with no, uh consequences for those who waged it,', 'start': 724.26, 'duration': 10.145}, {'end': 740.328, 'text': 'the fact that so many men and women are being murdered overseas and here, and the people who are guiding these are regarded as heroic.', 'start': 734.405, 'duration': 5.923}, {'end': 754.102, 'text': "So you think that in an anarchist system there's a possibility of having less wars and less, what would you say, corruption and less abuse of power?", 'start': 740.888, 'duration': 13.214}], 'summary': 'Concerns about mass incarceration, police corruption, and war casualties raise need for change to an anarchist system.', 'duration': 40.225, 'max_score': 713.877, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE713877.jpg'}, {'end': 825.306, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 796.767, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 798.548, 'text': 'let me give you an example from my forthcoming book.', 'start': 796.767, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 801.629, 'text': 'there was a guy who was the head of ukraine in the 30s.', 'start': 798.548, 'duration': 3.081}, {'end': 803.849, 'text': 'i forget his name now, these old soviets.', 'start': 801.629, 'duration': 2.22}, {'end': 804.65, 'text': 'they were tough.', 'start': 803.849, 'duration': 0.801}, {'end': 805.41, 'text': 'i mean they pride.', 'start': 804.65, 'duration': 0.76}, {'end': 806.31, 'text': 'stallion means steel.', 'start': 805.41, 'duration': 0.9}, {'end': 810.012, 'text': 'you know they pride themselves and their cruelty and how strong they were.', 'start': 806.31, 'duration': 3.702}, {'end': 811.233, 'text': 'And this was the purge.', 'start': 810.453, 'duration': 0.78}, {'end': 814.236, 'text': 'You know, Stalin is trying to, you know, killing lots of people left and right.', 'start': 811.534, 'duration': 2.702}, {'end': 819.561, 'text': "And his henchman Beria had the quote, find me the man and I'll find you the crime.", 'start': 814.596, 'duration': 4.965}, {'end': 824.285, 'text': 'You know, they would accuse someone and they would torture him until he talked and confessed.', 'start': 819.921, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 825.306, 'text': 'And then he had to turn people in.', 'start': 824.305, 'duration': 1.001}], 'summary': "Example from history: stalin's henchman used torture to extract confessions in ukraine in the 30s.", 'duration': 28.539, 'max_score': 796.767, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/gx4H6ZlV_vE/pics/gx4H6ZlV_vE796767.jpg'}], 'start': 554.008, 'title': "Language's impact", 'summary': "Explores language's miraculous achievement, impact on human interaction and society, including the emergence of lingua franca, fostering understanding, and addressing corruption issues, such as mass incarceration and police misconduct.", 'chapters': [{'end': 690.444, 'start': 554.008, 'title': 'The miracle of language', 'summary': 'Highlights the diverse use of language, the emergence of lingua franca, the creation of language as a miraculous achievement, and the impact of language on human interaction and society, showcasing the beauty and flexibility of language and its ability to foster understanding and identity.', 'duration': 136.436, 'highlights': ['Language serves diverse purposes, from basic communication to evoking emotional responses.', 'The emergence of lingua franca, such as Latin, showcases the spontaneous adoption of a common language across cultures.', "The creation of language is regarded as one of humanity's most miraculous and beautiful achievements, emphasizing the organic development of linguistic systems.", 'The impact of language extends to human interaction, identity, and the formation of specialized jargon, emphasizing its influence on societal dynamics.']}, {'end': 890.443, 'start': 690.464, 'title': 'Anarchy and corruption', 'summary': 'Discusses the flaws of laws, the issues of mass incarceration, police misconduct, and the potential for lower corruption and abuse of power in an anarchist system, with insights on the naivety of americans towards corruption, and an example of extreme corruption from the soviet era.', 'duration': 199.979, 'highlights': ['The flaws of laws, mass incarceration, and police misconduct are highlighted as major concerns, overshadowing worries about minor infractions like peeing in the pool.', 'An anarchist system may potentially lead to lower corruption, abuse of power, and wars compared to current systems, as discussed with insights into the naivety of Americans towards corruption.', 'Insights on extreme corruption from the Soviet era are provided, shedding light on the brutal tactics used to maintain power and control, emphasizing the potential for nefarious outcomes under monopolistic organizations.', "The discussion includes the example of a Soviet official's resilience against torture until his daughter was raped in front of him, demonstrating the extreme levels of corruption and abuse of power in totalitarian states.", "The chapter challenges the naivety of Americans towards corruption and 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further explored, with a reference to the concept of anarchism and an example of Twitter as a beautiful illustration of anarchism.', 'Offloading effort to professionals like accountants, lawyers, and doctors is acknowledged as valuable.', 'The concept of emergent behavior in society is discussed, comparing human behavior to that of ants and bees, highlighting the potential for a stable society without centralized control.', 'The emergence of lingua franca, such as Latin, showcases the spontaneous adoption of a common language across cultures.', "The creation of language is regarded as one of humanity's most miraculous and beautiful achievements, emphasizing the organic development of linguistic systems.", 'The impact of language extends to human interaction, identity, and the formation of specialized jargon, emphasizing its influence on societal dynamics.', 'Insights on extreme corruption from the Soviet era are provided, shedding light on the brutal tactics used to maintain power and control, emphasizing the potential for nefarious outcomes under monopolistic organizations.', "The discussion includes the example of a Soviet official's resilience against torture until his daughter was raped in front of him, demonstrating the extreme levels of corruption and abuse of power in totalitarian states."]}