No Mercy / No Malice: Chokepoints

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Scott Galloway, and this is No Mercy, No Malice. Since the start of the war with Iran, we've been fixated on the Strait of Hormoz. But in a globalized, digitized world, geographic features aren't the only choke points. Choke points, as read by George Hahn.

When you compress the carotid arteries, you cut off the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain. This causes unconsciousness in approximately 8 to 15 seconds due to cerebral hypoxia, oxygen deprivation to the brain. Globalization has expanded the economic corpus, resulting in an interconnected world and yielding huge, though unevenly distributed, prosperity. It has also formed carotid arteries the size of, wait for it, the Strait of Hormuz. In 1984, a forgettable Made-for-TV movie contemplated a Middle East conflict that closed the Strait of Hormuz.

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