not all societies. then while they talk about the importance of culturehe progresprogressive has been wore hardest and i will conclude with a few remarks by the next break conservative project, the revival of amerin civil culture. a highly influential book called thinking and he argued it begs two different forms. the first ishat he called system number one that is intuitive and emotionally major. it's slow, deliberative and logical in nature, the kind of thinking we associate with science and a terrible decision making. part of that suggested we tend to do too much of the former and not enough of the latter which has all sorts of problems for science. it's a fair point. but i submit system one thinking is actually an important part of the story how culture. from system number one taking precedence over system number two. much of it is hardwired but much of it is also the product of adult teaching and practices. here's an example of what, i mean. every good, everything that is good is easier to achieve

we've allowed the chinese communist party to act as a society that neverextended to us . educational access, trade access, ngos, three or four years ago would have no longer the opportunity to be sponsored an investment access, science and technology access, even data access. we thought it was worth it andit wouldn't cost us so much , that it would aid china's development and crucially so did beijing's political transformation. as you know the response, the result of all this is quite different. so access to our societies and our technologies certainly help china develop, the chinese communist party double down on its toxic ability to the west now we scrambled too late to protect our own societies from being transformed bybeijing . so reviving this idea of reciprocity , it's an absolutely fundamental step. there's no reason why beijing should be able to enjoy open access to american society while the folks that i work with him beijing and those of us who been there are prevented from even the simplest interaction with society, travel and many other typical normal diplomat

and so what emerges are new societi societies. just as native people had always cultivated and inno vavated the cultural traditions, their sense of kinship and community, how do we cultivate and hold onto a sense of balance and harmony? how do we maintain tradition? that often requires change, innovation, adaptability. so that's what we begin to see occurring on a more regular basis and at a more rapid speed from the 16th century. in the book i refer to a term that we as historians use, anthropologists use it also fairly regularly, the term is coales coalescence. what begins to happen is people, like those people of the once powerful moundville civilization begin to mingle. they're looking for new places to settle, new relationships and kinship bonds to form. they innovate. they adapt. they coalesce in rootlessness, and they recreate these roots in the context of the many changes a le alluded to. the arrival of very rude european europeans and the impact of disease. what we see developing, then, over the course of the 16th century

what emerges are new societies. just as a native people had always cultivated, innovated their cultural traditions, there's a sense of kinship and community. how do we cultivate and hold on to a sense of balance, of harmony? how do we maintain tradition? that often requires change, innovation, adaptability. that's where we begin to see a current more on rapid speed and on a regular basis from the 16th century. in the book, i referred to a term that we at the historians use, anthropologists use it also regularly, coalescence. when it begins to happen is the people like those people from the once powerful amount of civilization beginning to migrate throughout the south eastern cultures, they become refugees. they become migrants looking for a new home. for a new place to settle. new relationships, new bonds. they innovate. they adapt. they coalesce with other groups of people who are also experiencing the same sense of displacement, of ruthlessness. they recreate their roots in the context of these many changes i allu

i think so i think it's something that just so presidents and presidents in british society and it would be in 'd this i'm doing a disservice to the show if we hadn't touched on that and i feel like and it may encourage it was attracted to that question about you know what makes you have sort of what makes someone from evil is a class and whether money can be something that's or stimulates human appreciate it because of where you were born and and also there's a reality of the american attitude to a class for us the british one and whether the american see the possible to give money in your 'd job and your sort of material stuff in the british one which is basically about where you are schools where you played and your parents why did you read younger for drugs for the least amount of applicants the year before. a marginal gain about marginal gangs passing on the back don't. i play thank you to do you think is and i want this. to just christ margaret thatcher who went east on the ones recently where here is a carpenter and conrad is it a particularly exciting thing to write and a lot of

of banking we investigate the real american psychos as well as those crushed by modern capitalist society with the man behind killing dr mark freestone all of the more coming up in today's going underground but 1st coronavirus has arguably shine a light like no other on the relative responses of capitalist and neo communist societies to pandemics here in britain economic protection is under the thumb of a former banker bailed out goldman sachs boris johnson's chancellor is she soon but what's it like to work in the city a new drama premiering tonight in the americas on h.b.o. and here in britain on b.b.c. 2 tomorrow focuses on the lives of bright graduates who enter the bailed out city of london for money their behavior intersecting with geopolitics like a potential u.s. china war it's called industry and paints a tragically vivid and had mystic portrait of a dystopian source of neo liberal inequality industries to writers former bankers mickey down and conrad kay joins me now from london thanks so much for coming on a lot of people loved it in the editor used to work in sport f.x. said i

are better than the people who are actually doing the work in a sense of which society is spiraling, ministers begin to talk about how good that enslave a star in novels begin to talk about these patriarch, of the society in which they are in fac enslaving other human bngs and especially because they're large in the south they begin to believe that they are better than other people and by 1858 there is a famous speh given in congress by james hry, the senator from south carolina and here a speech in which he says we really think about how the world should work, a needs to be run by a few smart well educat people, the best people, we are really the os who know who how the economy works, look at how much money we have the rest of the room, most people are hard workers and loyal but they really don'tant very much in they can't figure out how to make their lives work without us taking care of them, they are literally pieces of wood that a driven into the mud to support the building, what's above it, most people are down there in the mud and were the ones at the top to really understand w

would also like to think that the different societies to form different cultural technologies. the work is the same in the cost all projects. they start about how talking about how culture works and that knowledge that is a false use the very his within the importance of culture to be personal in nature and the second as number two which is library and logical that we associate with science and disturb one - - to scribble chin and making thing. but unlike anything else and those that to be as early as possible good over everything that is good is the year to achieve a higher cost of society but then you don't want to careful system to but those responses are effectively through on - - texts of mourning then to be capitulated which is but it got large think the for the opening and closing of this window even those groups that as well. ear rational decision-making has little's practice from president to reach the modern world after all have so revolution as morally began to suppress the if the vast majority of individual and it is really the rest that there is there reason to sup

and i think looking at society. in a in a more sort of scientific or rational way the that we are you know one working organism together on one planet with one chance at surviving i think it needs to be needs to happen now more than ever. and just finally tell me about your the book you're working on the just mentioned based on your most recent album yes yes so we released an album of the at the start of lockdown basically at the beginning of all this which was a very difficult because it took out kind of. our plans of how to promote it how to toll the album. and i'm now writing the sort of a i guess the accompaniment guide to the 'd to the music which it looks at. kind of the word possibility really the fact that it's gone from something that we we salute to the future and we used to be like infused by the train to vittie the possibility and you know everything that was kind of good about life was right there to be taken whereas i'm not now i think that over the last so decade or 5 years especially so many things h

things that our society faces. thank you so much thanks so much for having me and reynolds there speaking to going on the ground deputy editor charlie cook that's over the show will be back on saturday when we return to the u.s. to look at what we can expect from the next 4 years in a superpower facing economic racial and health crises and subscribe to going on the ground on you tube and join us on twitter facebook instagram and. her chart in r.t. we believe we're on track to win this election this is the role of the american public so we'll be going to the u.s. supreme court a nation divided finding claims he's winning the u.s. presidential election while donald trump threatens to take decisions to the supreme court and what he sees as a quote fraud but i don't currently have 238 electors to 213 but key state ballots remain to be counted. 11 area results coming in one violent things a rapid clashes between protesters and the police in several cities across the west including washington d.c. . the reaction is comin

in slave society, this is the only place where the slave society biologically reproduces itself. by 1808, the international slave trade is closed, but the enormous slave population is in the south. it is unusual because you don't have to come from england or australia or new zealand. these are people generally moving within the south. cheap land, valuable commodities, high profits, assumed racial and cultural superiority drove and justified the migrations of millions of english speaking people in every hemisphere in the 19th century. the united states is an example of this, but here is the main difference for the south -- this is the only place where the white settler society possessed control over one third of the ethnicity to use in their expansion. all of those other places, white people displaced the indigenous people, but in the american south, they displaced indigenous people and brought slaves with them. it is a feverish growth and expansion, and a lot of the legal cases you heard about this morning. the american south is not the only slave society in the hemisphere. jamai

this week we focus on one of our world's biggest problems, inequality societies, where the gap is huge between rich and poor, where many people are being left behind. and that is the full, the pandemic. we go to indonesia, which due to the coronavirus lock down, is currently in the midst of a baby boom. it's making life tough for many mothers. and in the face of this rising inequality, we ask, what can be done about it? i discovered that we can learn a lot from europe, like in many societies today, there's a sharp divide between rich and poor, between those who have and those who don't. and despite living in the same country,, these different groups often feel little connection to each other. u.s., president elect joe biden, put it like this. this gap is keeping it's having the effect of pulling us apart. when the numbers say it for themselves . the world's richest 10 percent own 83 percent of global wealth and the wealthiest one percent owns an amazing 44 percent of global assets. nor is there much hope on the horizon. in many countries, the global pandemic has widened the gap between

the going to create a new society tt does it right.s we should be on top of everybody else but we should start this idea around e world that we create a new world in which very few of u are going to move the social ball forward. settg the new prosperous worl world. abraham lincoln listens to this. and he comes from,is father is barely making by the time they moved from kentucky to indiana. his father'sery, very barely making it he himself is worked as a day laborer, splitting logs and working in the elds. he obviously is a genius. he looks at this and says really? i should spend my life like this? and he ss no. que deliberately in 185 he responseo james henry hammond's speech with his own speech before a milwaukee agricultural fr. he says no, there are some people think the world works be if you put a few very wealthy peop on top of it. buthere are those of us who believe -- but there are those of us who believe the way the world reay should work us for the government to put its resources androtections on the peoplehe bottom. because i

societies like this in haasil hunting and gathering ancestors. as far as we can tell, is the phrase fish see it got a terrier. and when you said fish, they got a tear and there is no who. you know that it's not exaggeration, people in those societies and there are no gender that there's no gender hierarchy, what 7 gender roles of different women do of things. and so, but nobody puts a higher value on one or the other. and the minute anybody starts getting ideas above their station, they get knocked down muscle to sleep by their peers. and it looks to me and certainly the evidence suggest, given the small scale sizes that humanity lived like this for the bulk of our history again. and that this was a very successful model for engaging in living sustainably as parties. it was only really with the invention of farming and farming had all these risks that came with it. and the need to know the scaffold, see it suddenly there needs to accumulate. so misses, and you could accumulate scepticism different by growing more stuff by taking more stuff or som

this is -- the creation of what's called a settler society. these are english speaking colonies and former colonies around the world. and the idea is that white people claim the right to take land from the indigenous people as a destined path towards civilization. it's settler society because they are displacing native peoples through forced migration or deaths rather than incorporating them, as you might find in other colonial societies as you think of england and india, for example. so these settler societies, australia, new zealand, south africa, canada and the united states depend on break neck demographic growth. one reason i'm showing these maps, this is what underlies everything else. we talked in the very first lecture from dr. butterfield about the enormous doubling, natural growth of the white population, but it's also the case of the african-american population. this is the only enslaved society, the western hemisphere where the enslaved population biologically reproduces itself. by 1808 the international slave trade is closed but a

it's really about the society and the people and then what the technology is contributing to or not.mily: there is a tragic irony in that most of the people tasked with talking about the problem, the social dilemma, in the film are white men and white men are overrepresented at the companies that are building these products and creating part of the problem. as a woman of color, what would you have added? safiya: well, i would have backed up probably 20 years in their research. again, i think that women, in particular, and people of color have been doing the research in this area a long time. it is a little bit disheartening for some of us to see the makers of the problems in terms of people really actually working on product development, all of a sudden see the light, when it starts to affect their own communities or their own experiences or maybe their own moral barometer and then narrow the conversation. i think there is an opportunity with this film to open up the landscape for 50 more films and books and graphic novels and television shows for many more voices, and i think that's

where everyone irrespective of their religion has the same political and civic rights and a society in which people of all faiths can live and where these faiths can be practiced this is very important with transcendence as a place in our societies but the state must guarantee that right to everyone i want to say that contrie to what i've heard a great deal join the last couple of days our country is one which has no problem with any religion in the world because they can all be practiced here freely and as far as french muslims are concerned and indeed all muslim citizens throughout the world i want to say to them that france is a country where this religion is practiced freely and where there is no stigmatization. everything that i've heard is quite wrong france is a country whose universal vocation is to be committed to people being able to live together irrespective of their religion. many untrue things have been said and what i want to do here is to send out a message of resolve against all of violent extremists and at the same time convey a message of peace and unity and setting

so that the faces of the medic in society. if a particular ated that haven't caught anything really be done at to bridge the presidential town and then this job by them going to be able to make significant moves to, to reconcile these polar opposites. i think that's the big question, isn't it? i mean, we all know that presidents for all their power and resume and authority can only do so much. i mean, i think there's some very practical things you could do in america to cool down the rhetoric to cool down the internet. you know, bring back the fairness doctrine was demanded the public and what you indication channels the radio in particular events knowledge. and you had to have some kind of balance of opinion and create some kind of nationals service that would bring young men and women from all parts back to connection with each other in some doing something bigger than themselves. you know, eliminate the war on drugs. you realize because of the war on drugs, there are more americans with arrest records than there are with co

this week we focus on one of our world's biggest problems, inequality societies, where the gap is huge between rich and poor, and where many people are being left behind. and that was before the pandemic. we go to indonesia, which due to the coronavirus, lockdown is currently in the midst of a baby boom. it's making life tough for many new mothers. and in the face of this rising inequality, we ask, what can be done about it? and discover that we can learn a lot from europe. why? in many societies today, there's a sharp divide between rich and poor, between those who have and those who don't. and despite living in the same country, these different groups often feel little connection to each other. u.s. president elect joe biden voted like this. this gap is it's having the effect of pulling us apart. the numbers say it for themselves. the world's richest 10 percent own 83 percent of global wealth. and the wealthiest one percent owns an amazing 44 percent of global assets. nor is there much hope on the horizon. in many countries, the global pandemic has widened. the gap between rich and p

, but it's a gangsterized moment inur society. >> what do you mean by that? >> gangster -- what i mean is the eclipse of integrity, honesty, decency. a hypocrite -- hypocsy is the tribute that vice plays the virtue. so when you're a hypocrite, at ast you still have standards. you're just falling short. a gangster has no standards at all. they do anything they want. it's thrasymachus in plato's "republic." it's the grand inquisitor in dostoevsky's "the brothers ramazov." no standards, "i do what i want to do," impunity, lack ofty accountabi and that is the most dangerous thing no democracy c survive. >> sounds like y're describing president trump. >> well, i mean, he's one example, but he's not the only gangster around. all of us have some gangster inside of us. so, gangsterism is not just ari t-wing thing. it cuts across our human conditio >> progressives have enormous cultural power. progressives dominate in academia, in journalism, in the professions. we've got a problem across thero board, and theessives can't point fingers at the conservatives, and the co

and then one of the world's most famous anthropologist davis explains the changes in american society which dictate the political future of the world's most powerful country. but 1st, just e-mails. last week show on photographer extraordinary heidi benson excited great interest shot and said had the privilege of meeting him many years ago when i was cute, eating a football exhibition, he was a good friend of another well known press photographer, who kindly gave permission to use some of his fantastic images and brought him along to meet me. i had no idea then just how significant he was in the media world . so dying to earth, both of them a treasured memory. and len says, whatever brilliant photographer and a fascinating man kay says what an interesting guy out of the house says, how does seems like an absolutely sound tuj well done to him, amazing career. and finally, for dos had there says i heard of him before and saw his 2 foot across and i seen him speaking and shading his memories, that the past great man indeed still. now over to alex with professor of howard university, i met

alex with professor of how that university, i met martin, president of the phyllis schlafly equal society and author of the conservative case for trump. to come to you. professor, you must be pretty pleased when the jaws biden come along. hottest looking pretty presidential in the, in the podium there, think they're holding. they think they're going to, going to going into ministration. come january, are you celebrating there? when howard university? i have to admit, i am. i don't know how to express to you what it feels like to have a bi president of united states from howard university, the great black woman, the 1st woman of asian descent, and then the 1st is to include black college graduates being the vice president, me the tremendous all of a tremendous field. the community of black i would graduate worldwide in all this and not the result you were looking for in the election. but as the president is looking, not very presidential, this reluctance to concede, defeat makes him look like a bit of a bad loser of this, that not. well alex, you know, we have this great system here in ame

it wasn't seen as the ticket to participate meaningfully in a society. it was seen as something very, very different. so where we are now is a very recent sliver of history. james, i'll stop you there. more than dr. james been on the history of how we spend our time after this break. this is a story of women, women with troubled histories and complex court cases. you know, some of those deadly leave out there who were not the person that they're accusing this of the they are considered the most dangerous of criminals. she's in a still well below 23 hours of the day. tell me that it's not enough and isn't it in world of women on death row? welcome back. i'm still here with anthropologist and author of work history of how we spend our time dr. james has been one of the management consulting companies being commissioned by the government here to work on coronavirus. transmission. ideas is mckinsey, you talk about them in the book, the bedrock of our investment banking system, financial services terms like scarcity, which relates to gone together as you talk

sometimes the biggest social injustice in modern societies are human rights abuse. in countries with high levels of social inequality, the rates of covered 19 infections and deaths are also high. the gini index is a measure of income inequality. south africa and brazil are both very high up in the rankings. meaning they have some of the highest rates of inequality. according to this measure, the united states has one of the highest rates among developed nations. the virus has hit, especially hard works in berlin for oxfam, an ngo that focuses on alleviating poverty worldwide. the pandemic has hit in the world that was already characterized by massive inequalities driven by the climate crisis. and poor working conditions of our analysis shows that the pandemic is merely making preexisting inequalities even more extreme, and hits the poorest the hardest, the tough and learned what makes countries marked by extreme inequality so vulnerable, more vulnerable than even some of the least developed countries. it seems one contributory factor is the interaction between rich

it wasn't seen as the ticket to participate meaningfully in a society.it was seen as something very, very different. so where we are now is very recent sliver of history. james, i'll stop you there. more than dr. james says, men on the history of how we spend our time after this break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics. sports business, i'm show business. i'll see you then he exclaimed joe biden, to be president elect come on group. that's not how it works. final vote tallies, make that determination, and we aren't there yet. close the election, free and fair. and what is the possibility? have the country explained the election was still welcome back. i'm still here with anthropologist and author of work history of how we spend our time dr. james says, i'm one of the management consulting companies being commissioned by the government here to work on coronavirus. transmission. ideas is mckinsey, you talk about them in the book, the bedrock of our investment banking system, financial se

sometimes the biggest social injustice in modern societies are human rights abuse. in countries with high levels of social inequality, the rates of covered 19 infections and deaths are also high. the gini index is a measure of income inequality. south africa and brazil are both very high up in the rankings. meaning they have some of the highest rates of inequality. according to this measure, the united states has one of the highest rates among developed nations. the virus has hit, especially hard. ellen works in berlin for oxfam, an ngo that focuses on alleviating poverty worldwide. the pandemic has hit in the world that was already characterized by massive inequalities driven by the climate crisis. and poor working conditions of our analysis shows that the pandemic is merely making preexisting inequalities even more extreme, and hits the poorest the hardest, the tough and learned what makes countries marked by extreme inequality so vulnerable, more vulnerable than even some of the least developed countries. it seems one contributory factor is the interaction betwee

the time of the 1860 when the civil war was warming itself and there was a relatively small white society of slaveholders perhaps 15% of the white population and there was a rather large working-class population and he was a ship carpenter and he was one of the workingmen of manual labor, however, his parents had been slaveholders of some degree, i think they enslaved a people, his grandparents that enslaved 30 or 40 people, he is a person who experienced a class line, he became proper raised and he believed, i think, i never found any diaries or letters of his, he believed his status had been robbed and like many southerners of the day, they turned their resentment and frustration and the rage directed against people of color who had recently become emancipated and recently entered the public fear. >> you talk about, the very first civil rights act in the history of this country, the civil rights out of 1860 gets passed over andrew johnson and his message is giving civil rights to black people, is favoring blacks over whites and you immediately get white democrats organizing white suprem

in another societies throughout the 1st society could make money off of that where you define corner as a map that then you really start to see the resonances in china has been investing in africa many parts of asia for 2030 years very systematically is never pretended that the earth is doing anything other than expanding its economic interests it does not use. civilizing rhetoric because it doesn't need to let's contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft which talks about democratizing ai or facebook that is concerned to give as it were connection cometary can just be a privilege for some of the rich and powerful and needs to be something that everyone shares. facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people online since 2013 the company has been leading a giant project called internet dot all sort of gateway to the world wide web for those with poor connectivity. the app that serves as the portal to facebook's version of the internet is called free basics and it's been launched in at least 60 countries more than half of them in afri

i want to empower the institutions of civil society -- families and churches and voluntary associations. i want them to carry the bulk of the load when it comes toal , education, and welfare, and transmitting to each new virtues that are necessary for people to lead successful lives and to be good, contributing citizens. but i know that a mahat's unleashed without regulation, without moral consaints is going to do much more harm than good. >> so, have either of you moved the other closer to your position in any issue?nk >> i there's been some movement. >> yeah, i think so. >> i think when we've taught hayek together, friedrich hayek, and his critique of -- >> did it bring you closer to the ad to serfdom? >> [ laughs ] >> well, i was against serfdom from the very beginnin and i've become more intensely -- i'm glad you mentioned that,as that 1944 c of his, "the road to serfdom." i think there's been movement, but a lot of our movement has to do with, also, intellectual, movemeat is to say, reading great texts. it could be a john stuart mill.u it be a w.e.b. du bois. it could be a hayek. i

away from people who are incarcerated or people who are coming back to society but it's true safety is really is people who are coming back into society making sure that they are safe make sure that i'm safe that james is safe and still safety isn't one side or road it's code that is showing that if i have coded and i'm walking around in the streets and in your grocery stores and in different areas in your malls are you safe no you're not safe so safety is not just keeping james away from a nun or keeping danielle away from james that's not what safety is safety is restoring the humanity in people and last thing i would say that by the time i was 17 years old i was a parent list homeless high school dropout. at the age of 18 under those conditions and with layers and layers of trauma and abuse i committed a crime i'm not excusing my crime but what i am saying is that when i got to prison there was nothing in prison that told me to say sorry no one in prison told me to be accountable no one in prison asked me to be to apologize to the victims to make it amends no one asked me that an

it society because brown v. board of education was an education case, that the principles applied to everything. the employmentt case, with the use of the n -word and brushed it to the side when it was the main issue. i was concerned with the level of the backing of the court that has happened over the last four years. i am wondering whether or not, with the current judges in the lifetime employment, we are going to begin to see a dramatic turn in what we expect. the court hearing that is forthcoming around the affordable care act. what does that mean in terms of so many millions of people. regardless of race, to access their health care in the midst of a pandemic. covid would be a pre-existing condition, now with access to health being unattainable to individuals because they are contracting a virus that was completely preventable, because our public policy and administration refused to admit it existed. we have this domino effect. it is concerning. teresa: we have a question from an anonymous attendee. the que

this is a great society and of perfect -- imperfect burst of society but a great society.his flag is my peaceful, mostly peaceful protest and that is why it sits right here and nobody will knock it off either. take a knee, now we're being told no, taking a knee has nothing to do with the military and nothing to do with the flag but don't hand me that. we are pulling down monuments whether or not they are part of the confederacy or part of the union. we are trashing monuments, abraham lincoln and washington and all the others and this is an attack on the core values and pitfalls of this society. nothing less and we, the people, need to stand up any to object to this because this doesn't represent the vast majority of americans. but it does represent the majority of the media and academia and students but not the rest of america. that is a fact. tonight what i decided to do is look at two areas that i think are crucial. one is academia and the other is the media with two really outstanding scholars in the first gentleman i want to introduce you to, distinguished professor em

do you worry about our society towards achieving racial justice and if so can you elaborate. derrick: i worry but i'm hopeful on what is possible tomorrow. going back to normal, may not be the best thing. we need to be normal. we need to be better than normal. absent prior to the election, the station, we are at inflection point. whether or not we want to start looking hard to 2032a more just society or whether or not we want to relax back into a a different reality . think that's where we are a note normal is not good enough. there are too any false barriers. i have a friend who's an administrator in west virginia and he was shocked, he had never been there before because he can see the face of poverty and it looks like everybody. in the loss of hope can impact anybody. it's our job should be how do we address the face of poverty. how do we increase hope. so that we don't have this type of concern in the local communities whether they be urban or rural or people turn to substance abuse a sing right now. the opioid crisis as opposed to know that they can add value to society.

it's terribly damaging for societies to put them into lockdown. it's not good for anything.at i'm saying is there must be better ways to deal with this virus than all the time lurching in to lockdown. the basis for my saying that is the positive experience of what we're seeing in east asia, whereby having defences in place in society. and well—organised defences at that, you can avoid the need to go into lockdown, you can keep life going despite the virus. but if i may say so... if i may say so, the lesson surely of the last ten months is that there are many democratic societies, many western societies, which appear incapable of conducting that kind of localised test, trace, control, isolate procedure that you are talking about. and i don't wish to embarrass you too much, but it's clear even in your own building, in the world health organization yesterday, we learned there have been something like 65 staff infections, including 32 from people who come in to your building every day, including one cluster of infections. you guys, who are supposed to be the most disciplined adv

this is not how people in a just and orderly society live, and he's right. so, to take over the master of ceremonies job for the evening and to direct our festivities and all of our discussion, i introduce you to brad rowe. [applause] brad: you can't hit me like that. thank you, though. those were my sentiments, and they are my sentiments. so, thank you for saying that. i apologize, as gary noted, i do have a history as an actor. i can sometimes act like i don't feel a certain way. this is not one of those issues. i first of all want to acknowledge that we are on the soil of ucla. we are a land grant institution. we recognize the native people as the traditional caretakers of the los angeles basin. we pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, and relatives of these people. [applause] in late 2007, i took a trip to help out my sister heidi in nebraska, omaha, nebraska. she was a floor manager for a cosmetic brand. on december 5 of 2007, when a 19-year-old entered the mall, he shot and killed eight and wounded four. one of the employees was looking directly a

as a means for social control has been part of our society for, for decades. upon decades, we have 35 prisons within our state that hold close to 100000 people. right now you don't get there without being devoted to that ever policy and has priority issues that we are going to incarcerate our ways out of marginalization disenfranchisement, a lack of resources and resource sharing in our communities. so there is a very specific model that california believes in it, which is that incarceration keeps us safe. but says advocates are saying that is false. that is categorically untrue. what keeps us, they are having basic affordable housing. just having an income, a reasonable living wage, having access to reasonable medical and mental health treatment when needed. those are the things that actually keep communities safe and build communities. and our government at this point has a different philosophy. james, i'm just looking as honestly as far as it says, then i'll come right back to some the advocacy that you were to when he says no transfers, town halls. sadies

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how would you say this, mpeg society today, ai looks like this magical black box that has new things that we've never seen before. and also maybe we, we ascribe too much power to these things that are influencing us as well. so now we just think of all these algorithms that are manipulating us in so many ways. and the truth is, we don't really know the extent to which this many pollution works. we don't have like a very solid scientific basis about how much really, how much power these things have over us. what do you think the top dangers are into creating a i enter our lives. having a small group of people have more not political power over here i. so if you think of today, we have very few companies that have this proportionate power over our data. if this data is paid to ai's, that can then have a say or can make decisions that impact us and society as a whole, then we're in trouble because then we're in a tyrannical situation. and i think that's a problem that we don't have really transparency about which data can be owned by whom can be used by whom to what and and this is not