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Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)

Infinite Loops

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The Invention of Improvement

Bob Greene: There's something very odd about our concept of innovation progress. This idea that everything has to be progressing infinitely, there's no end,. He says the goal of life is to progress; Americans always wanted to self-improve. Greene: The people that want progress most are those whose current lives are quite unsatisfactory.

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