20. Crashing Institutional Gates With Schrödinger’s Cat: An Object Lesson in Eric Weinstein’s DISC

MEOW: A Literary Podcast for Cats · Dec 28, 2022 · 25m

In 2018, mathematician Eric Weinstein coined the term "Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN),” defined as a closed exchange of ideas promulgated by “insiders” – sitting politicians, tenured academics, high-prestige journalists, and the like. Among these insiders, those who deviate substantially from the party line are either divested of their privileged status or see their ideas subjected to linguistic processing that renders them compatible with the GIN. This idea was later expanded into that of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex (DISC), an all-encompassing system of checks and balances…