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An Ode To The Uncorrelated Thinker - Eric Weinstein

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Preposterousness of Western Culture

I'm not going to pretend that the negative parts of western culture are untrue but god damn it when people start talking about the West is just this terrible thing. It's like a guitar with an amplifier if you have a really large amplifier which is what the Enlightenment did through science and technology to project the power of the West. If you make a mistake on a less Paul hooked up to an enormous martial amplifier I guarantee you people are going to hear that mistake three towns away because you're amplified at some different level okay well everything that the West did wrong we did wrong at an amplified level so yeah there was a ton that was wrong you know but certainly not true that the West came up with slavery

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