I've Never Taken the Whole Cancel Culture Seriously

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i can't even picture myself saying that. I have no memory of that even being like, a debate or an idea or anything. We're going to be naval gase which is to say, we're going to just make somei guess, some observations about our or our task. That's really like also. V b w, i like the way that sounds. B w, that doessounds like bowel movement, but with upside downa, orrazilian makini. But this was inspired by, at by a twit that said, how would you describe the podcast now, as supposed to to ten years aow, it was when we startedye, ten years

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and tragic character Funes the memorious. What would it be like to have perfect memory, to have full access to every perceived detail no matter how trivial? Would life be infinitely richer, with present experience and memory merging into a perfect Heraclitan flow? Or is William James correct to say that one condition of remembering is to forget, and that “if we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.”?

Plus, we’re sorry, but after 10 years (!) we thought we had the right to get a little self-indulgent and naval-gazey. We do a bit of reminiscing (“though we have no right to speak that sacred verb..”) in the first segment about how the podcast has changed since 2012, and the impact it has made on our lives. Thanks for the memories!