
Episode #5
Trust
<p>Season 4, Episode 5</p><p>August 29, 2026 | 9:30 PM Pacific</p><p>Diogenes Laërtius records Socrates looking at the abundance of goods offered for sale and remarking, “How many things I can do without!” The passage appears in Book II of Diogenes Laërtius’ Lives of Eminent Philosophers. </p><p>The modern wording that has stayed with me today is even simpler: how many things there are in the world that I do not need.</p><p>More than two thousand years later, countries confront their own version of that problem. Geography creates dependencies, prosperity deepens them, infrastructure hardens them into physical...






