This week, we head to the woods. UBC professor of psychology Liane Gabora walks us through the deep tension between creativity and conformity that runs through every institution humans have ever built. Her work on cultural evolution reveals something Darwin never touched: ideas don't survive by competition, they survive by transformation, by honing, by the slow and sacred work of making something raw into something real. We ask why civilizations keep building towers they can't sustain, why originality is worshipped in the past tense and punished in the present, and whether the internet might finally give us the collective memory to stop repeating the oldest mistakes. This is a conversation about what creativity costs, who pays for it, and why the system would rather you just kept quiet.
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00:04:22 Creativity and Conformity in Tension
00:06:49 Bronze Age Collapse and the Cost of Innovation
00:13:21 Why Civilizations Keep Destroying Themselves
00:25:04 Can Better Thinking Be Taught?
00:28:03 Light as a Model for Thought
00:50:54 New Ideas Need Protection to Survive
00:58:14 Cultural Evolution Is Not Darwinian
01:07:42 Why Good Ideas Lose to Bad Systems
01:13:03 Why Physics Punishes Originality
01:27:24 How to Tell a Breakthrough From a Bad Idea
01:42:52 Would Aliens Have Rock and Roll?
01:49:19 Creativity as Expanding What's Possible
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