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E26: Johann Hari - We Have Lost our Connections

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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The Machine That Gets Us to Neglect the Things That Are Important in Life

I almost imagined in my head the person I would become and I knew that person and they aren't happy. And so for a set, you know, when I looked at that car, it made me think, fuck, I don't want to be that person. We all live in a machine that's designed to get us to neglect the things that are actually important in life. The journey from Janice Joplin singing that ironically to that actually being in a Mercedes Benz advert is so revealing. You saw when this, I'm singing this song and I feel like shit, right? So we've got to think about. How is that story constructed?

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