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Brett Andersen: The Re-Evaluation of All Values

From the New World

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The Two-World Mythology

Sally Kohn: I think there's two paths here. One of them is the idea that the world has become the most egalitarian that it has been, but this isn't necessarily true in kind of both revealed preferences and also just the way we live our lives with technology. But the other question I really want to go to is how this kind of ties into the two-world mythology, right, that you talk about and that you can come from Nietzsche when he's describing slave morality. She says if you are a master or someone who is extremely powerful within your society, you don't need any metaphysical justification for your moral preferences. You can just act them out because you're powerful,

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