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268 - Christopher Mastropietro - Into A New World

The Symbolic World

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The Socratic Lightbulb of Anxiety

The Socratic tradition can induce the consciousness of sin, but it doesn't necessarily have an answer to the largess of guilt that you inherit because of waking up. And I think that's why, like Kierkegaard talks about, Christ as being both the pattern and also the redeemer. It's the redeemer that allows for the relief of the guilt such that you can actually refocus and fashion your attention again. After COVID, a bunch of people woke up, but they also found themselves with this debt of guilt of having broken themselves all that time which cannot easily be erased.

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