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Ep 330: Eric Weinstein Won't Toe the Line

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Importance of Openness in Poetry

I think that there's a weird way in which you can't actually escape what you're saying is the exotic gaze. What we typically call orientalism in the West and the fetishization is in fact an internal fetishization. And even if you don't come for the spirituality, the spirituality will come for you. There's no way to avoid it. So in terms of how to form me and how does it differ from somebody else, I think the key question is are you open to having your life shaken up without coming to answers?

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