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Calum Nicholson – An Anthropology of our Age of Discord

Dr. Calum Nicholson, a scholar at the University of Cambridge and the Danube Institute, speaks with John Bell about the cultural undercurrents impacting politics everywhere – including spurious Western attitudes, assumptions, and habits vis-a-vis the rest of the world. Nicholson is a specialist and consultant on ‘climate migration’, as well as on the historical significance of social media. He teaches courses on international development, international migration and the impact of social media at the University of Cambridge. 00:00 – Intro 02:08 – Failures in the West’s intervention in Afghanistan 08:31 – The epidemic of hubris in the West 13:47 – The lost lessons of humility 18:44 – What is pluralism? 24:11 – The island mentality of the Anglosphere 27:53 – The end of the pretense of US moral legitimacy 32:23 – America as a culture that has exhausted itself 35:02 – The U.S. is transitioning to a new era 37:54 – Our agreed upon truths have de-composed 41:11 – Future political schism between visions of a digital and analogue world 44:58 – We need a better anthropology of ourselves 48:45 – Narratives have a warping effect on how we relate to each other 53:09 – Narratives are a magic that bewitch us