#10 - The Primacy of Ideas, with David Deutsch
Do Explain with Christofer Lövgren
Are We Just Inseparable?
i hear this concept being invoked often to excuse certain behaviors and observed tendencies among humans. Some ideologists say, ok, we can't escape it, but we have to try really hard. But i think the things like alienation, i think marks invented the term in this context. And people can adopt a theory and then condition their feelings, consciously or unconsciously, by that theory. This is what we really do. We interpret ourselves according to theories and attitudes. Many of them come from culture, because we know that some attitudes are recent and did not exist even a few centuries ago. It's a very bad explanation.
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