Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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Is There Too Much Wisdom?
i think there just isn't enough of that. Like, we're all too cynical. We offer concrete advice or optimistic platitudes. Or a yonow, eight levels of irony and jokes. And i think people are craving for this kind of thing. You know, there's good reason it's not done commonly,. because i think it's hard to do in a non, like, cringy, corny kind of way. A, and it also seems like it's offering some, offering wisdom is something that you have to be pretty clear about what you're doing., he says.
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