The Cockroach Party Won’t Be Stomped | Shashi Tharoor | The Futurology Podcast

Member of India’s Parliament Shashi Tharoor describes a world order that’s dramatically changed but is still protecting us from World War III… for now. | Subscribe to Futurology:    / @futurologypod   Hypocrisy, the old line goes, is the tribute vice pays to virtue. For eighty years, the powerful at least bothered to pay it, citing human rights, national security, and democracy as reasons for starting wars and undercutting liberties. Now the veneers have been stripped, and the next generation is not accepting business as usual. In this episode, author, Indian MP and former UN Under-Secretary-General Shashi Tharoor discusses how the order that prevented a third world war came apart, why a world more economically entangled than ever has less and less trust holding it together, and what the youth uprisings around the world have in common. His solution? A movement toward not just tolerance of differences, but acceptance of them. Subscribe to Futurology on YouTube:    / @futurologypod   The Futurology Podcast – full episodes on YouTube:    • The Futurology Podcast   Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2I38HvH... Chapters (0:00) Introduction (1:13) Social Media, WhatsApp, and Indian Politics (5:13) What Is the Role of the UN Today? (10:08) The Third World War Never Happened (17:26) From Non-Alignment to Multi-Alignment (24:48) Interdependence Without Trust (34:09) The Cockroach Movement (39:59) Why Tharoor Is a Hindu Mentioned in this Episode: Why I Am a Hindu — Shashi Tharoor (Book, 2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_A... Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad — John Bolton (Book, 2007) https://openlibrary.org/isbn/97814165... Where to find Shashi Tharoor: Personal site: shashitharoor.in Instagram: @shashitharoor X: @ShashiTharoor Want to share suggestions or feedback? Email futurology@berggruen.org Keep up to Date with the Berggruen Institute at: https://www.berggruen.org Instagram:   / berggrueninst   Twitter/X: https://www.x.com/berggrueninst Facebook:   / berggrueninst   LinkedIn:   / berggrueninst   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurologypo... Credits Executive Producers: Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels, Nils Gilman, Dawn Nakagawa, and Jason Hoch. Producers: Grant Slater, Alex Gardels, and Nathalia Ramos. Associate Producer: Elissa Mardiney Theme Music: Marcus Bagala Audio Engineer: Aaron Bastinelli & Kyle Scott Wilson Futurology is a production of Studio B and Wavland for the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, California.