Altered States Of Conversation
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min · 12 segments
Where are we in history? What is the central question for social philosophy? What paradigm might be replacing capitalism? What will become of humanity in the age of information and attention? How can…
Alexander BardGuest
Tim AdalinHost
Okay, so on the one hand you can have an overly rigid membrane, but what I also see just imagistically is something like a no man's land where you might have five to ten miles of landmines and a whole bunch of other bullshit that people aren't necessarily aware of is actually constituting that boundary.
in that no man's land and how much of that is a good image for characterizing this somewhat indeterminate phase between paradigms.
And I really want to speak to where I think we are meeting each other today, which cannot define itself so cleanly with respect to what tribes we belong to.
So in our work, what we discovered when we're doing, okay, so we're doing a lot of anthropology in parallel with the philosophy.
We discovered in our work there was a huge gap between the people who are truly outcasts in a society, which is about 8% of all people are truly outcasts.
Not that they self-define, we're much more radical there, in that their way of life and the way of thinking of the world is obviously radically different from the 92 other percent.
In any human population, we've studied this in China, Greenland, historical, etc.
What seems to return is that there's a perfect size of LGBT people who contribute.
So when sexuality drives men and women too far away, the LGBT people step in between.
And what's funny is that every human population has about 4% of people who are LGBT.
They're mostly heterosexual, or they don't even understand the question of sexuality.
Okay, so on the one hand you can have an overly rigid membrane, but what I also see just imagistically is something like a no man's land where you might have five to ten miles of landmines and a whole bunch of other bullshit that people aren't necessarily aware of is actually constituting that boundary.
in that no man's land and how much of that is a good image for characterizing this somewhat indeterminate phase between paradigms.
And I really want to speak to where I think we are meeting each other today, which cannot define itself so cleanly with respect to what tribes we belong to.
So in our work, what we discovered when we're doing, okay, so we're doing a lot of anthropology in parallel with the philosophy.
We discovered in our work there was a huge gap between the people who are truly outcasts in a society, which is about 8% of all people are truly outcasts.
Not that they self-define, we're much more radical there, in that their way of life and the way of thinking of the world is obviously radically different from the 92 other percent.
In any human population, we've studied this in China, Greenland, historical, etc.
What seems to return is that there's a perfect size of LGBT people who contribute.
So when sexuality drives men and women too far away, the LGBT people step in between.
And what's funny is that every human population has about 4% of people who are LGBT.
They're mostly heterosexual, or they don't even understand the question of sexuality.
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