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#570 - Helen Lewis - Investigating The World Of Modern Gurus

Modern Wisdom

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The Need That Gurus Are Taping Into

Part of it is the desire for reassurance that everything's going to be okay. A lot of it is about a kind of idea of control and wanting to get some kind of a grip over a world that can feel very scary. And I also think, you know, like the pickup artists are really interesting because one of the reasons they flourish is because what people want from a relationship has changed.

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