Why We Don't Trust Each Other Anymore
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- We are saying everything, but also saying nothing at all. How do we fix that?
Words are a way to confer meaning that often gets separated from the concept the word represents until we are just sort of talking at each other about things like “rizz” and “Price-to-Earnings Ratio”. Language is failing us. Narratives are collapsing, stagnating, insert-scary-adverb-adjective-here.
I’ve written before on the limits of language, but in this piece I want to discuss the forces of education, media, and the nostalgia cycle loop, focusing specifically on the attention economy and how the failure of language has impacted how we understand the economy and each other, ultimately eroding trust, the most expensive commodity in the world right now.
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Great video! I think you’d like Wittgenstein’s ideas on language too.
“Wittgenstein's philosophy on language is centered around the idea that language is a social practice and that the meaning of words is determined by their use in specific social contexts. According to Wittgenstein, language is not just a set of words and grammar rules, but is rather an integral part of the way we experience and understand the world.
Wittgenstein believed that the meaning of words is not fixed or objective, but rather is shaped by the way they are used in different social situations. He argued that the meaning of a word is determined by its use in a specific language game or social practice, which is a set of rules that govern how the word is used in a particular context.
Moreover, Wittgenstein believed that language is not just a means of communication, but also plays a role in shaping our thoughts and perceptions of the world. “
Are you still releasing new podcast episodes? Haven't seen an update for sliceonomics for a while
Thank you for taking the time and effort to explain your view with this scope.
There’s a language barrier in understanding the problems being faced on many sides but those with time, and resources clearly have a privilege and it’s usually where the privilege comes that affects the vibe of the language, to me that makes things more easily misinterpreted.
Thank you for making the vibe seem accessible and meaningful.
@KylaScanlon please find a way to have a conversation with a chap named Joscha Bach. That would be so interesting to watch.
You have very similar information density in your spoken language, and overlapping interests.
I ran into Adam Grants Ted Talk about Languishing over Covid. This definitely relates!
Also I love your perspective and these videos!
This was really, really great. It left me with four comments:
1) some of the greatest movements in history began with a few brilliant people actually sitting in a room together and authetically communicating with each other.
2) Our language/interpretation gaps in understanding each other, while otherwise using the same words, means we will always experience different realities that words cannot articulate. A)Whomever is ruthless and savvy enough will be able to exploit that gap at-will, in the name of profits.
B) A real SOB will also purposely pit us against each other, because chaos leads to more profit.
C) A POS Machiavelian would ensure polar opposite opinions were shared using the same imprecise words, confirming that the other side is wrong because "they don't mean what I mean when I say the same words!"
D) Heartless bastards will do all of the above and exploit our attention nonstop to take advantage of the resulting "inattentional blindness," so they could hide in the gap, like "the invisible gorilla."
3) If a certain few words cannot meet the task of understanding each other, we must empathetically use many uncertain words. That is perhaps the greatest challenge of how quickly technology has advanced: we can now see everyone all the time, we can tap into a false sense of community through an endless stream of content. It fills our time and feels good, but it isn't human connection. It is processed and refined sugar in a world where we need natural high quality foods. It is also a sort of trojan horse masking as human connection. Because in naturally longing for connection we consume the sugar without realizing that in the terms and conditions we have inadvertently exposed ourselves to a pathogen of endless monitoring and agents of incogneto marketing trained to bend our consumption and reality for their benifit.
4) We are being presented an empty box, as if it is a gift, and being told to get inside. Our complete consumption is the mutual gift. Things we see online are controlled by algorithms finetuned to get our attention and feed us stories. We are shown many things, but rarely how to see. What we see sells a niche or a product or an idea, content meant to influence. The insidious problem is that it mimics storytelling (an evolved human need) but is instead advertising. That hologram is a vacant picture of humanity, a bizzaro humanity devoid of the things that actually make us human. Our wise ape brains were never meant to be this exposed, this often, this effectively. Online "communities" are an abstraction of real community. That "community" is big and filled with dangerous rich old men, prepared to literally edit reality in the past and present, to take advantage of whatever language failures will create the greatest profit.
Bonus 5th thing) Thank you for using many words, since few words cannot describe the nuance of this moment we live in, and thank you for that "They Live" moment--Consume. Consume. Consume!
It’s so important to hang out with friends regularly, and I know a hurdle is that so many feel they’re “not good at reaching out”. But after you’ve done it a few times, and after you’ve seen how beautiful and human it is to just be with someone else, it’s an easy thing to pursue.
I have learned so much about life, others, my community, myself, and the world in hanging out with friends, and even being comfortable to strike up conversations with strangers. We are interconnected, social beings and we can’t sacrifice our eyeballs, authenticity, time and money to companies who are manipulating us to win those things from us.
Great video Kyla. So many big ideas, and so many more ***meaningful, descriptive*** words to be said on these issues.
I mean I’m glad it works for you but trying to connect to people often means unbearable stress and pain for me so you should speak for your own experiences
Kyla, your passion for trying to understand the world and how people relate is so palpably endearing, and I think your content is exceptional. I come away from these videos without any immediate intelligent follow-up questions so much as a feeling that I need to marinate for a couple of days on it. It's like a class on reflection, and the aim is to get gears turning (and they do).
As a divorce attorney, I tend to advise my clients against what I consider to be a false dichotomy between zero/positive-sum thinking. Most real life situations are mixed, and it's hard to disentangle which components of a situation are truly zero sum, negative, or positive. The end result may be, say, positive, but since it has zero/negative sum components, it's only net positive to a degree. Even if you could really nail that down, you'd still have a tough problem quantifying things, not to mention capturing all the parameters which you have control over.
Masterpiece. I love the 18:12 Bo Burnham "Welcome to the internet" moment. But overall, it's an incredibly on-point, adventurous, novel, and eye-opening analysis. Well worth the time, twice over.
This channel is so underrated. These days on the internet high quality unbiased (as unbiased as one can be) media about economics, politics, current events, etc. is really hard to find.
This channel has a clear left bias. But its not a bad thing necessarily, I like to hear both sides.
@@ticklefights I agree it leans left, but no where near a leftist channel. But I really like how she looks and analyzes data instead of just pure speculation like too many RUclipsrs do. I also like to hear both sides, I take in info both right and left leaning souces, but once you get into actual rightist/leftist media it gets pretty bad.
@@coke8077 Sure. I don't think its overtly political or anything. It's just left biased in the way things are typically left biased when presented by people on the left who don't know enough about the opposing worldview to understand the difference between their biases and "things that are just obviously true"
Appreciate you Kyla, such a seemingly impossible subject to speak on and unpack.
Phones being a extension of our arms, now certainly rings true.
I took a screenshot of the "94% of our communication is non verbal" first time such a quantitative description on that! Something i've been saying to anyone that'll listen for so long now.
I feel for sure we have no longer got the language to describe what we feel or express what is happening under the globalised culture we live under.
I love for you to continue to unpack this. I'll have to check out the podcast.
Hope you're well.
when kyla speaks, you listen, and then listen again, and listen again.
fantastic piece kyla, i’ll be ruminating over this for many weeks, honestly.
Big fan of your commentary. I’m an undergrad Econ student who struggles with understanding other’s analysis of the current state of economies of today. This is very digestible and engaging. Thanks Kyla
Great content, great background researches and a most interesting analysis, bravo.
First time on the channel, and I’m surprised that after years and years of searching and listening to any possible economic’s podcasts and channels I’ve found this one just now.
Video saved for listening it over again, brilliant work
New to your content; Discovered via your recent Wealthion colab.
Refreshing to find a channel that doesn’t need playback speed adjustment. You talk at the speed of engaging thought.
As for Trust, that’s a top-down phenomenon. If we don’t trust our institutions and ‘the powers that be’, we can’t trust one another. We’re all in defensive mode.
This really felt like a really good cultural studies lecture. I really miss those lectures back in university. Thanks for this video.
I never realised untill just now that I had a wound in the shape of this upload.
You are expressing an issue so very clear that bugs me since quite a while that I cannot thank you enough. I disagree in some points, where I believe constructivism and the four-sides-model can explain why language apparently fails, when it really does not, but overall this essay is brilliant and it will take some time to think about it. Subscribed to substack!
Good work doing the research and presenting your analysis. Keep it up!
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.”
- Satoshi Nakamoto
Good stuff. I put you at playback speed .75. Better. Feels like this speed better addresses the subject, that word and message and that which you can take in and feel. Thank you.
I cam from the Urvin podcast and I'm really enjoying your content! keep up the great self aware content 💜
After watching the video, I'm going to read your Substack post and think about all this for a while. Very, very interesting!
i really love your videos, youre one of the only economists i trust to represent me and tell me the real lowdown on the economy, and i wish i could afford to buy you a new microphone because it is so hard to hear you in most of your videos and i really think the words you say should be heard by many people
The language the insiders use to talk about the economy is intentionally meant to be meaningless/confusing... because they're the insiders and intend to keep it that way, as it's always been.
YOU ARE THE BEST!!! LOVE ur videos! I aspire to be as smart as u about the economy :)
You’re an incredibly deep thinker, this was amazing
Saw your reels on instagram. Great stuff that stays grounded in reality. Unlike the pundits/politicians waving their arms around angrily proliferating and profiting (attention-wise) from negative sentiments.
I love watching your videos on IG!!!! Thank you for your posts :)
As a television producer tasked with presenting news to children, this resonates profoundly. We came to the same conclusion you did. That we needed to explain things better. More simply. Which turned out to be extremely difficult but ultimately very rewarding. Thank you for this fantastic video.
gotta do the hard work!
I think the elephant in the room is the fact that mega-corporations are keeping more and more of the wealth workers produce, to the point that people are struggling no matter HOW well the economy is doing. This has to be rectified, or economic growth will become meaningless for the people producing all the value.
This is a belief, although it is not related to the point she is trying to make.
Half truths make whole lies.
My main beef with discussing zero sum games is not including inequality.
Creating value together but not sharing that growth.
A lot of good stuff, keep up the good work!
You consistently make some of the best videos on RUclips period
I'm 10 min in so far and loving the insightful topic. I couldn't wait, I had to pause and comment 😅
Ok, I finished it. Great job. Really thoughtful. I love the positive-sum mindset. Cheers!
Sooo I’m building tech to make the economy more efficient and help meet the U.N.’s SDG 8.
I’d love to see what you think!
I can’t wait to watch this channel blow up! I think it’s doubled since I subbed!
Thank you!!
The consequence of describing this problem as being endemic and not CAUSED by incompetence is that people like YOU and Will come off as the problem itself.
Thank you for this.
Very thoughtful video. Kudos! Life has ALWAYS been chaos. We are continually evolving. But…it’s always been messy. We like to build castles in the sky to get us through the other side. We idealize. There’s nothing wrong with that per se. Life is 80/20. 80% reality and 20% heads in the clouds. People 2 centuries ago had limited access to education. 1 century ago people were trying to harness information….hence the birth of the „information age“. Now…everyone is „overwhelmed“ with the amount of information in the new millennium. Every generation inherits Chaos and it’s pros & cons. This is not a new concept or way of life. Sure it’s human to feel „overwhelmed“. You have to take personal responsibility to balance your life, though. Our biases will always be there too. Do the best you can because nobody is getting out of here alive in the end. Enjoy the little things and carpe diem 👌🏻✌️✨
Easily the best RUclips channel on the internet. That being said, I would invite you to savor your words. Please feel free to speak slower so that those of us who aren't gifted as you in terms of your ability to think can catch up. If you go slower you will go faster. I learned this then I was running adventure races. In the beginning, I ran at full tilt but ended up losing because my teammates couldn't keep up. The minute I went slower we won. I believe you could do the same here. Keep in mind your teammates, even if they are slower than you are and you will win.
Banger of a video as per. I don't have as detailed feedback as some other commenters but one thing I would say is a mic would pay huge dividends for videos similar to this style. I know u don't have a studio or anything like that but anything more than a laptop mic would be 🤌🏾
This is deep. Nice job.
This is a great piece.
The most frustrating thing about what reality you're describing and perspective you're sharing is that it should be a more common in-person conversation, as enlightening as it is as a video lecture. I appreciate your insight!
This was great, thanks. I assume you've read Wittgenstein & Lackoff, but if you haven't, you'd love them.
well put
Right On!
You da best!!
sometimes I feel too much words causes more chaos, when ppl say words to each other that they both mean kind things but the opposing may take it in as negativity
Important conversation!
I never miss a Kyla RUclips session
Love your videos and substack page ❤
Thank you :)
I heard you speak for about 5 minutes before subscribing.
Your concept to word ratio is awesome, and then you speak fast too, so it's like a rolling concept explosion in my brain. Noice.
Keep up the good work. Thanks.
thank you!!
This is actually a great summary of real data confirming Balaji’s tribalism theory.
We are all a mess!!!
You put your foot in this, take a bow!
I just saw you on The PBS News Hour😊
"Assistance to poor" and "welfare" are not the same thing. "Welfare" is referring to government redistribution programs. "Assistance to poor" can be individual or private charity.
Ian Hanomansin the journalist reported on a new discovery these scientist were in the Amazon river area researching the effects of oil spills and in turn the Anaconda, what I loved is the excitement in the the scientists voice that the Anaconda snake was actually a new species, what Ian's insight gave me was a sense that there are many things undiscovered and many are only found by accident so what's is stopping me from
Hoping
Nothing
I think part of the solution is fewer consumer tools and more producer tools.
We live in a society where economic participation is not about what you know, it’s about who you know.
Relationships between people is the basis of the economy.
People gather in physical proximity to relevant people.
The connections we form are more disparate which makes it harder to build relationships to build a career.
If we can supercharge that ability - the ability to work on the things we want with the people we need - I think it could be a real game changer.
For me, I realised that "economics constructs" whether in application or theory, are constructed to address (human) needs. Yet there is a concerted effort to objectify everything. This is a trend that has been growing for a long time.
The goal I would think is to create a language that is devoid from needing human input. Rather, the human input is automated, in hopes that we can create some mathematical formula of a scenario and compute reality or a solution. Really empathetic outreach is needed, because problems go deep.
In a sense I would say that the discipline strives for predicting the future while sacrificing creating a accessible present.
This felt like the thing that is happening but nobody is able to put it into words.
Big fan of Carl Benjamin’s take on liberalism and the social contract to explain the slide into low trust
Kyla, I wrote a book, are there any suggestions you can give me? I am currently, looking for an agent to represent my projects.
20:52 Similarly, all of the recent David Bowie live albums are the same ones that have been circulating around as bootlegs. Remastered to sound better for sure, but also with the missteps, strained notes and other flaws edited out.
Ending billionaires (everything after 100 million gets confiscated), much higher corporate taxes, redistribution of that money to the less well-off, lobbying is made a capital crime, making housing a human right and ending real estate speculation, fully transparent government, getting rid of politicians and replacing it with voting on issues, redesigning communities to be places you want to spend your time in, making AI open source, every government information and news item has to be verifiable via blockchain.
Great video Kyla! We are on the same Twitter algorithm
An interesting related phenomenon: attend a meetup where philosophy folks are skillfully discussing Kant, the advantages a deep understanding of his work gives one, etc - then, at the end of the meeting when the discussion turns to casual, object level matters like politics, *all the knowledge and cognitive competence that was just there has suddenly vanished*.
It seems that generally speaking, philosophy can only be discussed in the abstract, it cannot be practiced at the object level. I believe that can be changed, though one would need a powerful enough platform to constrain the Neurotypical monkey mind.
Public discourse is always the best of my tribe vs. the worst of others.
Meanwhile we never take develop seriously. There is low development language within every tribe. So if we interview a lower developed version we can easily "destroy" we could also deconstruct - but we don't do that.
No where do i see constructive. No effort to develop off a common ground
Chaos is not disorder necessarily. Chaos is needed to attune in the world. We've grow too fast. Chaos is merely not order. We need to show a bread crumb trail with how we got to where we are at. This is accommodation.
Public organizations are assimilating not accommodating! We need chaos to be more inclusive. However we need to learn how to use language to navigate and develop in the world with each other from chaos then we DevOp order. With consent and intent!
The urban dictionary 😊 it's the responsibility of us to define what they mean I always am following up with others on what that word means to them
Marketing has been put on steroids. In my business, we call this usage spikes.
I'm here because of PBS News Hour.
Kyla: slow down, take a breath.
what an opening
Are all of those bikes yours?
Some eyes are an expensive commodity, true that !
What in the world is the other pointing at? Or what do you mean!? Thats a start.
We have language figured out and we could teach high school students. But it's complex. Dialectics is actually a very good analytical tool, but so many people have an acute angina when hearing this word - cuz westerners especially USA are paranoid about communism that dialectics is interwoven with. But we kind of need dialectics to help hold the tensions of opposites. And we live in a world where every word will end up meaning its opposite. As Carl Jung has describe with concept/word: enantiodromia.
Perspective Aspect Meaning Maker is one frame for language structures. Declare a perspective, show the aspect/milieu for what one is trying to mean. We point at an identity and that becomes a subject/object... Before we subjectified it was just a being... That's what post modernism essentially is!
Alphabet is thee technology for humans. However we have not come to terms with it! Literally, figuratively, etc.
Literalism and mass sophistry in a world that does not prepare, has no explicit rites of passage. Yet we do ritual ,albeit fuzzily, anyway!
The perennial tower of Babel problem is something humans have not come to terms with - literally.
Angels and demons are literally real. They are hyper objects. We can observe them with stats! We can draw a bubble venn and show how patterns appear and how they effectively act with their own agency. So when ancients spoke of the gods - they were pointing to something in the world - patterns as hyperobjects appearing in mass behavior.
We don't teach any of this.... Alphabet technology has been around for thousands of years. WTF!
Thanks for this video!
What a gorgeous creature..😍
Music is the only way all people can accurately express their feelings to others.
Like Middle Class- people that have everything they need but maybe not everything they want
Every generation think they’re in the worse state. Ppl still go to church. Parents still take their kids to sports, museums, etc. Rock n roll did not poisoned our youth. We survived a pandemic. Life simply moves on.
(Pssst! By way of comradeship, I offer you a friendly tip: it’s _proost,_ Marcel Proust is a French name, and that *ou* in French is pronounced *oo* like the English language words “you” and “too” and “through” - and I offer this mostly because I am prone to mispronouncing names also, and it’s better you hear it now from someone who likes you, rather than later at some crucial moment from someone who doesn’t.)
thank you!!
@@KylaScanlon - _De rien !_
Bad money drives out good money.
Gresham's law, with words.
Maybe talk with less word, it better.
Writing this for the algo😁
Marcel Proust 😍
People today just spend wayyyy too much time on the internet, listening to conspiratorial, grifting podcasters or consuming sensationalized news media. Honestly, people need to just spend time doing other shit.
Here’s a word: eTcetera… (t-t-t, not ex- ) but what does it matter, I know, I know….
What defines a "household" this is also terrible language every house has a different number of incomes, dependants and owning the house greatly changes networth. The median of a household feels like undefinable, useless data point
Ask people what they want and they will say their current wage with 2019 prices. Explain to them that they would need to accept flat wages to negative wages for the next 4 years to achieve that and their answer changes.
Noone alive in this country has truly lived through a deflationary period and catastrophic effects it has on the economy.
Got a headache from the pacing
would be real nice if we all used one app.
Universe is most expensive in the world not anyone .
Any of muh doods watching this at .75 speed in an effort to soak up more juicy bits? Maybe that's just me and my neurodivergency speaking 🤠
Poeople do not know who they are ?
So good. So bad.
We need a national faith
it started from covid .. bad data in bad data out.. + I'd assume result from little massage on the numbers due to incompetence or done on purpose ..
btc is trustless 🚀
hello wonderful person, please sign my copy of your book in the future :)
trust is a rodent
What's with the recurring shot inside the subway car? I guess I can see using it as a transition of some kind if it has some meaning or significance that I'm missing but. . . it's such _terrible_ shot. Badly lit, badly composed, drifting around. If you're wed to the idea of this shot, at least make it a better shot of the inside of a subway car.
Is that you Cara?
political games means people in the fringes die and the fringes are growing.