Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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Is It a Virtue?
i like his metaphor of the default setting. If you never bother to go into your settings on your phone, like you'll never be aware that there were all these other features come You can just leave it on default thand you'll not notice. And unfortunately, the default setting for for us is one of very constrained egocentris. The defild sebbings on your phone are trying to get you to be on it asas right? There's one part about this that that you know, which is when he says, don't worry that i'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other directedness, or all the so called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue
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