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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Context of Our Lives Is Coming to an End

The context in which we are living our lives is completely turned around. We're spoiling everything that we do by allowing these terms to seep into our speech. If I call you a reply guy and I call another person a pick me girl, or I say that a socialist in the US is a Bernie bro,. What I'm doing is turning everything into a generic. And I think that that's just terrible. It's one of these, I don't know whether we maybe a Wittgensteinian sort of a prison of language. But for the purpose of this podcast, let's value ourselves enough not to call ourselves creators.

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