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Kisin relayed that psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who is not religious, describes religion as a social technology for group cohesion.
“It's a social technology for achieving cohesion within a group and for giving people, and, you know, on a personal level as well.”
Kisin said primatologist Desmond Morris wrote The Human Zoo, arguing that cities produce in humans responses like those zoos produce in animals.
“He was a primatologist, he studied great apes, and he wrote a book called, Uh, The Human Zoo, which was all about how the city creates in human beings the kind of responses that a zoo creates in animals.”
Kisin said Timur's empire stretched from Constantinople on one side to China, Russia and India.
“his empire stretched as far as Constantinople on the one side, to China, to Russia, to India”
Kisin recounted a legend that Soviet archaeologists opened Timur's tomb in Samarkand despite local warnings, shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
“Soviet archaeologists were opening about to open this tomb, and all the locals were like, Don't, don't, don't touch it, don't touch it.”
Kisin said Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, in Operation Barbarossa, and called the Battle of Stalingrad the turning point of the war.
“June 22nd, 1941. Operation Barbarossa. Here's the interesting bit as well. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war.”
Kisin said Saudi Arabia has a pipeline to the Red Sea that could bypass the Strait of Hormuz, but that the Houthis were attacking it.
“The problem is the Saudis have this pipeline that goes to the Red Sea, so the idea is you don't need the Strait of Hormuz, you can go around it, but the Houthis are bombing the shit out of that pipeline right now.”
Kisin said most countries hold about a year of diesel supply while the United Kingdom holds about two months.
“most countries have a lot of supply for, like, a year's worth, the U K has two months worth of diesel supply.”