Ep 158: Knowledge and Ignorance Part 1
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Optimism Is a Philosophy of Ignorance
Pop begins was authoritarian to the core when you really read him continental innings outlook he was no mill he was no god when he was no popper better than Plato perhaps but barely it would seem to me that epistemological optimists of daycarts kind who thought knowledge was possible are quite dangerous in politics. The idea this is possible that's a very scary one because that indeed is the truth is manifest crowd once you've got the final truth you're apt to defend it and to defend it to the deaththat view of the world is almost as bad i have to say it is as bad as the view that well you're just a pathetic human incapable of thinking for yourself so let the state
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