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Rory Sutherland: modern life has become a collective insanity

The Spectator

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Rory Sutherland joins The Spectator for a live conversation on the strange psychology shaping modern Britain. From technology that begins as a convenience and ends as an obligation, to the collective ‘insanity’ of the housing market and the distortions of rolling news, Rory explains why supposedly rational systems so often make life worse – and why a little more irrational thinking might be exactly what we need.

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20 Comments

@chipperP 1 month ago

I came for the talk. I stayed for the belly button.

@OctoberSkiesBenediction1999 1 month ago

Rory, you are a treasure. Please take care of yourself. XO from US

@MassiveKoch 1 month ago

Love Rory!

@MatthewLloyd481 4 days ago

Love this kind of 'counter to the majority' way of thinking!

@danisehetland3378 1 month ago

Rory Sutherland is a legend!

@andrewfielden5345 3 weeks ago

My sister in law works in marketing for Toyota UK. She tells a story of a pan European meeting to discuss a tv advert and it was suggested that the cup holders should get a look in. The German representative asked For what are we wanting cup holders, we are driving?

@dragonrabbit7410 6 days ago

🤣 that intro has the energy of walking into the third act of an episode of Rick and Morty!

@stephfoxwell4620 1 month ago (edited)

There is no Past anymore. We have rewritten and mocked it to oblivion.
There is equally no Future. Nothing of value can be taught quickly enough.
We can only react to the rapid pace of change.
We exist in an endless frenetic Present.

@GhostPrefix 1 month ago

Good work as always Rory.

@cygnusx-1318 5 days ago

In college class was asked if the cover of Time magazine reflected what's important, and I realized the cover determines what's important.

@ES-qm5hr 6 days ago (edited)

The triple lock thing is psychologically interesting. The most often repeated line I hear about it goes something along the lines of, "I've been paying tax all my life, and now I deserve a return by having a pension." But, if you are going to see tax as an investment, then you must also see the return as tied to the results of that investment. If people constantly pressure politicians for tax cuts, and freezes that leaves them in huge amounts of debt with a growing deficit, then you cannot complain when there is not enough money for your pension to be paid out.

@oldblueeyes100 1 month ago

He is slowly morphing into Miriam Margolyes!

@notgodzod 2 weeks ago

Life is so much better with Rory in it

@adambritain5774 11 days ago

I’ll take the ‘boring’ safe town with no litter or vomit, thank you.

@davenickname 4 weeks ago

Its not surprising that the best cup of tea requires risking your life first and doing a good job. I bet it tasted a lot better than the £1000+ bottles of wine some people drink at fancy restaurants to impress their clients or colleagues .

@ExpertofEverything 3 weeks ago

Awesome guy ❤

@brendansheehan7714 3 weeks ago

Alan Partridge agrees with you! 😅 Love your insights Rory.

@catalin_ccc 2 weeks ago

@16:50 "Someone changes your bed sheets" What a blow, she doubled down on the you're gonna get me cancelled, haha!

@karinvanwyk9131 1 month ago

Interesting and entertaining

@DevyanJethwa 3 weeks ago

Rory man. Interesting to learn that it all stems down to understanding behaviors once everything is stripped down. The answers are what your senses catch on