Jordan Greenhall: Genuine Conversation and the Intellectual Dark Web + The Paradox of the Times
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The Paradox of Being a Caterpillar
It seems we're in a very paradoxical time, he says. In some ways you can look at many different kind of indicators and say this is the best time to be alive. But then there's even deeper insight which is that caterpillars devour and destroy everything around them as they try to become a butterfly. And so I think that's actually the deeper notion that if you look at our civilization from the perspective of it is a caterpillar it is becoming more of what it is - flourishing on that basis.
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