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00:17:16 In any of these situations, whether you're a professor or a reporter or a politician, if you can gain a seat inside of the Gated institutional narrative you can attempt to converse with other people with in that particular conversation. The rest of us do not really have the same level or kind of access to this highly rarefied discussion, and I've previously compare this to what we would term a promotion inside of the world of professional wrestling. It's an agreed-upon structure in which people often agree to simulate dispute rather than actually have disputes because somebody could get some really seriously injured but they're in fact working together to produce a and engaging and regular product for Mass consumption problem with this gated institutional narrative. Is it in general? It doesn't contain the most important ideas and that is where the gating function comes in.

00:18:14 The most important ideas are likely to be the ideas that are most disruptive. What if the entire food pyramid for example was wildly off what if fats we're not the great danger. We thought they were and those waving fields of wheat that are fabled an American song. In fact, give rise to carbs which are very dangerous to us all as if everything were inverted. Let's say we're in a world where instead of banishing volatility during the so-called great moderation before 2008. We were actually building the Tinder for the world's largest financial forest fire. What if in fact we had all sorts of things exactly backwards and completely wrong. What if diversity wasn't always a sign of our strength, but sometimes a sign of our weakness what if for example immigration far from being an issue of xenophobes versus Anna files was actually an instrument of redistribution having very little to do with xenophobia or