Patton Oswalt and The Mandela Effect
Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma
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The Importance of Confidence
I doubt that there was ever this whole idea that at one time it was better. I just don't think it was. Socrates thought that writing would ruin man's mind. And then Plato thought that poetry and theater and all this imaginative writing was what we were just talking about, going to dilute people and make people more easily manipulated. It must have been though much more. Kids don't want to see you recite the entire history of the Albany War. They want to go to an amphitheater and watch these idiots with masks. And it's all written down for them. People are morons. That's the whole problem. We never been on a stream of consciousness. This is
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