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Tripping with William Shatner

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The Importance of Curiousness

I think that also like the, the reason why I think it's hard to sustain the curiosity that you have as a kid is that all these institutions, they don't reward it. They actually penalize you because you're like interrupting. Everything comes in and that parent is a teacher and especially a philosophy. What is the basis of philosophy? Yeah, it's wonder. Wonder curiosity. That's right. It's love of knowledge. Listen to me. Listen to this. The computer then fits back. What a professor in philosophy would teach you. So then when we've assimilated that knowledge, are asked what is justice? What is we're spinning back? He was told by

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