The Madness Factor

The Madness Factor

From LOGICAL MINDS ONLY by Robert Burk

May 20, 2026 · 13 min

About this episode

The episode explores the paradox of human brilliance in technology contrasted with social immaturity and the underlying insanity driving societal failures.

Abstract: Confused about why crime, war, poverty, unemployment and all of the other failures of this world exist? Do you wonder why we can be at one and the same time, brilliant in a technological sense at one end of the spectrum, and over-grown children socially at the other end? The simple answer most people are technically insane because they gamble on an outcome they know will never come about.

People in this episode

Host: Robert Burk

Topics covered

  • crime
  • war
  • poverty
  • unemployment
  • social behavior
  • technology
  • insanity

Keywords

  • crime
  • war
  • poverty
  • unemployment
  • social behavior
  • technology
  • insanity

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