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30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall

2020/4/16
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Eric Weinstein: 认为美国资本主义的成功和过度扭曲了美国梦，导致社会停滞，难以避免像以往帝国一样衰落的命运。他认为，主流社会对经济停滞、技术停滞和政治体制的衰败视而不见，而一些非主流观点早已对此发出警告。 Ross Douthat: 他的书试图将各种外部批评整合到一个叙事中，解释经济停滞、技术停滞和政治体制的衰败。他认为，经济停滞、硅谷的失望、华盛顿的无效运作、人口老龄化和生育率下降等问题相互关联、相互强化，构成了衰败。他认为衰败并非单纯的放纵和享乐，而是倦怠、无聊和沮丧。他还探讨了宗教团体在衰败社会中可能扮演的角色，以及如何应对衰败。他认为，虽然衰败依然存在，但对衰败的不满和应对方式也比以往更加多样化和富有创造力。

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The conversation begins with a discussion on the concept of the Decadent Society, where success and excesses of American Capitalism have distorted the American Dream.

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Just before the great indooring due to the Pandemic of 2020, Eric sat down with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to discuss his book "The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success." Over champagne flutes filled with bubbly, the two discussed the various ways that the success and excesses of American Capitalism were now distorting the American Dream into a dystopian fever vision, making it far harder to wake up from this stasis in time to avoid the previous fates of fallen empires. 

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