
Stephen Fry
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
The Importance of Language in the Creation of a Tribe
Lawrence Wilson has run several meetings out early modern humans. It's interesting to think about the notion of language and how it how it plays out in terms of the necessity of a tribe of having some communication. We keep our insignificant blemishes so we can blame them for our larger defects, he says. The world would stare at us and whisper and giggle about us excitedly as people always do if we took steps towards constitutional cosmetic alteration,. He adds. "We're going to disrupt this space" 10 years ago we were talking about disrupting culture by breaking things that had been built up over time like airbnb or jacuzzi rooms but now they are being broken too
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