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31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes

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The Conversation With the Dead

I feel like i spend most of my time communicating with people that are dead. Like like ayou talk to the dead, and so do iwell, so. So zeno is the founder of socism. He goes to the oracle of delphi. And they say, your light, you will, you will become your best self when you begin having conversations with the dead. Thereafter suffers a shipwreck, washes up in athens, loses everything. And he walks into a bookstore, and the bookseller is reading a dialogue of socrates. You know, socrates is dead yoin kna, few decades by he time this happens. And he realizes, oh

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