distrust of the media, of our leaders, of even military leaders. like, there s what does that trust ever me bacack or is it lost? that t s in some ways the project, right? the project has to be building back up some of that very necessary trust. now, healthy distrust is good, right? learn that with the war in iraq or the financial crisis, right, i mean, the e was a lot of really smart authoritative people saying we got these models about housing derivatives and believe us, this is going to work. they were wrong. t when you sort of weaponize that distrust, when you spread it everywhere, you actually lose the ability to formm knowledge. and i mean this in a really literal sense. like, the things that you, seth meyers, know, are actually just things that you read or heard from a trusted source. uh-huh. ou know, like, you haven t conducted the experiments, right? no. no field work. you have not done the field work. you know it because of trust. and when that gets severed, you en
discussion about what i think helped explain this election. you actually wrote a book called twilight of the elites which talked about a lot of this, strange way predict add lot of this and just mentioned distrust and there is a core distrust of the media, of our leaders, of even military leaders. like, there s what does that trust ever come back or is it lost? that s in some ways the project, right? the project has to be building back up some of that very necessary trust. now, healthy distrust is good, right? and i think a lot of people learn that with the war in iraq or the financial crisis, right, i mean, there was a lot of really smart authoritative people saying we got these models about housing derivatives and believe us, this is going to work. they were wrong. but when you sort of weaponize that distrust, when you spread it everywhere, you actually lose the ability to form knowledge. and i mean this in a really literal sense. like, the things that you, seth meyers, kno