
The Noble Lie | The New Thinkery Ep. 94
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The Story of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron
i think there's a multi vilan aspect in the second part. The story of gold, silver, bronze, iron is meant to capture real natural inequality but to give it an outward stor or something tt they can visualize that will make people tolerate it. In otherwords, this a sort of an image of the truth. There is a natural hi hierarchy, but people aren't on be like, wat tat guy smarted at me, so x whirsee. But if you can get them to believe in this lie, somehow, that there's gold, silver bronze, i mean, i don't want to take this too far afield - we talked about the cast
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