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[Unedited] Alain de Botton with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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I'm a Parent and I'd Like to Go a Little Different Place With This

i'm thinking a lot right now these days about how and if we could apply the intelligence we actually have with the experience of love in our lives. A functioning society requires, well, qris, two things that, again, it don't sound very normal, but they require love and politeness. We're kind of acting out in public the way we act out at our worst and in relationships. I think you're on to something huge and rather counter intuitive, because we associate the word love with private life. By love, i mean a capacity to enter im natively into the minds of people with whom you don't immediately agree,. To look for the more charitable explanations for behaviour which...

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