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#178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Myth of the Founding Fathers

"I think that stories and art are waddling in line with your thinking," he says. "When you experience it through a story, through a movie, through a TV show, a poem or a painting, it affects you in a very visceral, very different way." The term myth often means lie, but it could mean in a useful sense an abstraction to help you systematize and concretize ideas,. So you have the myth of Reagan. You have theMyth of Thatcher. But these are powerful, powerful, powerful stories. And people are moved by it".

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