Podcast 531 – “The Prisim Lecture”
Psychedelic Salon
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The Origins of Certitude
I've been writing a historical novel the last year and one of the conclusions I came to is that certitude belongs only to those who own the on one encyclopedia. This is Wilson's 23rd law. And what you got to do is try to find out how old Mozart was when he wrote his first symphony to start with. If you're looking five sources, you'll be totally confused. The belief in certitude, I think, I suspect is a primate habit. Almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing and not paying attention to the important things. People think the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
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