662. If You’re Not Cheating, You’re Not Trying

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  There are a lot of explanations going around for why our political moment feels more chaotic than many of us have ever experienced.

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  Let me offer up one more explanation.

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  It has to do with rules.

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  My belief is that many people in many different circumstances have come to think that the rules we live by are stupid.

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  So stupid that the only sensible thing to do is break them.

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  And if you get away with it, then you've got the confidence to just keep going.

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  And now you've got different people playing the game of life by totally different rules.

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  How do we think that's going to work out?

• 00:39

  All this got me thinking about one place where rules are still followed,

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  for the most part, at least.

• 00:45

  And that's what we're going to talk about today.

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  Can I take you on a really weird digression?

• 00:52

  I would love a weird digression.

• 00:53

  Okay, down a rabbit hole?

• 00:54

  Sure.

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  Have you read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?

• 00:57

  Not in approximately 45 years, but yeah.

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  I read it when I was at sophomore in college.

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  I was one of those annoyingly good students who took notes in the margins and I wrote all my papers on time.

• 01:09

  Anyway, so my daughter was five or six.

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