What Elites Really Believe

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation." Ruxandra Teslo is a PhD student in Genomics at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. She writes about science and culture at Ruxandra’s Substack. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss Rob Henderson’s concept of luxury beliefs, its key insights, and the misleading ways in which it’s often used; the academic study of “misinformation” and why we should be skeptical of (much of) it; and how cultural ideas about progress shape outcomes in the real world. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	We're now much more concerned with matters of like can a poor child go to Harvard and I think at least today are genuinely much more
0:40.1	Concerned even practically with that than it leads 300 years ago where nobody cared about that.
0:45.9	But I think that the sort of like unintended consequences if you take this too far and if you combine
0:51.9	hypocrisy with it you get this like absurd things where you deny any
0:55.8	hierarchy and you're like, everyone is the same, everyone can be happy.
1:01.1	It's sort of like toxic benevolence.
1:02.8	It's like when a parent wants to be good to their children
1:05.6	and they end up like not setting any boundaries
1:08.9	and then it's bad for the child.
1:10.5	So like I think it's the same as society in the elites. I think it's good to have benevolent elites and I think that's the core thing, the desire to be benevolent, but it's also very easy to just feel good about yourself and do nothing and not check the practical outcomes
1:23.7	your actions. In my experience the vast majority of a leader so-called lazily
1:28.4	well-intentioned. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
1:37.0	My guest today is Ruxandra Tesla.
1:41.0	Ruxandra is a PhD candidate in Genomics at the Tesla. really interesting writer about culture.
1:53.5	She entered the scene about a year ago with a sub-stack that has quickly gained a big and influential
2:02.1	following and she's written about all kinds of subjects we've discussed today
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