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Interview with Helen Lewis on culture wars and religion, that Jordan Peterson interview, and gurus generally

Decoding the Gurus

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Is There a Guru in Your Life?

Gurus are a kind of living heuristic, aren't they? Right. You just go, this all seems very complicated. Him, he's like me. And that definitely happens in politics too. There's a strong connection there with one of our diagnoses with why gurus are influential and why people are taken for a ride about something like vaccines by someone like Brett Weinstein. It is absolutely difficult. What you need to do is you need to have like an a trust network.

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