Srinivasan: US ideological separation portends event like India's partition
Balaji Srinivasan · Ep 57: Balaji Srinivasan on the Severity of the Bank Crisis and the Future of Bitcoin · Joe Lonsdale · May 11, 2023 · at 35:39
Entrepreneur and author Balaji Srinivasan discusses growing political polarization and ideological divergence in the United States with Joe Lonsdale.
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“Cognitive separation has happened. Social separation has happened. We're still physically proximal. And what that portends in my view is something similar to do you know what partition was in India?”
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