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Robert Wright

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The reason you haven't heard about it isn't because there's no chance it's true, it's just it's not the kinda thing our media system really wants to amplify. And, and s- similarly, our picture of what's going on in China, there are definitely some, some things I would consider bad going on there, but I guarantee our view of them, of, our view of even what they are is not the same as the average Chinese person's, and in some cases I think our view may be kind of distorted because it's like, who want, who wants to be the person who says, "I don't think that human rights situation is quite as bad as you're saying"?

“The reason you haven't heard about it isn't because there's no chance it's true, it's just it's not the kinda thing our media system really wants to amplify. And, and s- similarly, our picture of what's going on in China, there are definitely some, some things I would consider bad going on there, but I guarantee our view of them, of, our view of even what they are is not the same as the average Chinese person's, and in some cases I think our view may be kind of distorted because it's like, who want, who wants to be the person who says, "I don't think that human rights situation is quite as bad as you're saying"?”
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Robert Wright
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

02 / evaluation

Like, you know, you, you, you, you have to understand that we are widely viewed as completely hypocritical. And so, a- a- and, and once you see that, I don't know, it seems to me that you just realize, well, either we are going to have to start playing by the rules or we're gonna have to do a little less lecturing of oth- to other countries about playing by the rules, because human nature is just such that that kind of hypocrisy doesn't fly.

“Like, you know, you, you, you, you have to understand that we are widely viewed as completely hypocritical. And so, a- a- and, and once you see that, I don't know, it seems to me that you just realize, well, either we are going to have to start playing by the rules or we're gonna have to do a little less lecturing of oth- to other countries about playing by the rules, because human nature is just such that that kind of hypocrisy doesn't fly.”
Speaker
Robert Wright
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution
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