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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Simple Life
I suppose it's funny in a black hearted sort of way. There is a purity about individual individuals that can be corrupted by society. But you have to take the reverse position as well if you are going to get things balanced. The idea of the simple life, where everyone is living in harmony with nature, and the depredations of culture have not yet manifested themselves. I'm going to read the next section too, but this, it's a very interesting paragraph because it speaks to something t that i think has a dramatic origin too,. A mythological or architecal origin, which is the idea of the simple Life.
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