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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

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The Promethean Spirit

It's very popular to criticize communism and Marxism these days. And I often put myself in the place before any of the implementations came to be. It's not clear to me how it goes wrong. In fact, it's still not clear why the hell did this like with Stalin happen or Mao happen. There's something very interesting and complex about human nature in hierarchiesAbout distributed cognition: "There are results in that"

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