Name: Maajid Nawaz - The Epic Battle Between Centralized And Decentralized Systems
Uploaded: 2022-02-21T04:49:57+00:00
Duration: 12 min 19 s
Description: This video clip comes from a three-hour long interview that Joe Rogan did with Maajid Nawaz. Technology, according to Nawaz, disrupts power structures. "What happened when they invented the printing p

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This video clip comes from a three-hour long interview that Joe Rogan did with Maajid Nawaz.

Technology, according to Nawaz, disrupts power structures. "What happened when they invented the printing press? The power structures who up until that moment were reading the Bible for you and were telling you that you will pay this priest x amount of favors and he'll forgive you your sins. And that became a bribery system which is what Martin Luther was so upset about when he pinned his thesis to the wall. The printing press disrupted that power dynamic because people could read the Bible for themselves and they began realizing the power structures were manipulating what was written to control people. Now nobody in hindsight is going to argue that printing and its invention was a bad thing for humanity. But at the time, it led to war . . . It disrupted power so much that people began rising up and it led to this 30-year period of war which eventually led to the reformation and the rest is history. What, today, is the Gutenberg Press? The internet. The decentralization of information and then . . . the decentralization of currency in the form of cryptocurrency is disrupting power."

Nawaz is a former Islamist turned counter-extremism activist, author of multiple books, and public speaker. He was the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter-extremism think tank that sought to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists and, until January 2022, was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays.

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