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144 – Life is Hard, How Philosophy can Help (with Kieran Setiya)

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Is Everything Turned Into a Taillic Activity?

Everything can become a taillic activity like if your goal is to maximize your linkedin or instagram followers. forget viewing a sunset if you don't get the perfect picture right and i've had conversations recently with people who are so-called influencers they make their living in these people are not happy. Everything gets turned into um gets turned into a means a means to an end list long-time listeners will know one of my favorite thinkers is eric from on this  and he was writing in the the late 50s and early 60s about what he called the marketing orientation or the marketing personality we're pretty much everything you do is to increase your personality value on a marketplace.

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