Zak Stein has a wide-ranging talk with Jim about our culture's dwindling capacity to understand & address today's increasingly complex problems. Zak starts by defining this moment as a time between worlds & draws its connection to societal transformation. They go on to talk about the meta crisis, intergenerational transmission, negative educational impacts of reductive human capital theory, the culturally integrated & interdependent nature of education, education vs information, the importance & broad reach of teacherly authority, postmodern influences on academia & educational reform, regenerating parental education, pharmacological impacts on schooling, raising vs designing children, the developmental necessity for unsupervised play, and much more.