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Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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Are You a Tourist?

Gindlekell talks about the banality of being a tourist. The intellect is a abond and our system of education fosters restlessness. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves. There's an economy to this, and one side always balances out the other. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe, seen by god, is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. It dissolves the facts and holds it fluid. Let us rise into another idea. They will disappear. And then just talks about how everything is ephemeral. So that's how this starts. Maybe it's not progress, but there's movement

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