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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Importance of Pleasure

"I just wonder what the positive... I forgot who said this about technology, but technology is an axe. You can use an axe to cut wood to build a fire and warm yourself," he says. "You can also drop an axe and cut your foot off. Oh my God. You can also murder someone with it." 'There don't seem to be any except giving you pleasure of some kind,' he adds. "'That seems to be the only thing which further deludes you and makes you easier to manipulate' It's going to be very weird.'

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