
Woody Allen
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
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I Like New York Because It's the Opposite of Nature
i was thinking about this in terms of the movie shadows and fog tat yo made, where, you know, the night is dangerous and it's not. And what what rescues the person is civilization. So i think he viewed the primeval man before society, as the ultimate free being. And society imposes chains on that person. But in some sense, you're saying it really actuates the opposite. Society provides a safety net. If i walk out into thet i live in an environment that has other families and restaurants and museums and schools and libraries and theatres. It's, i live in a civilized, structured place, whereas if i'm out in the wilds.
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