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298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

The Symbolic World

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The Difficulty of the Oral Culture

The difficulty of the oral culture now is that I want to be careful not to make too many comparisons with ancient oral culture. It's still, it's like quick dopamine hit and forget, you know? Like TikTok, there's no, there can't be TikTok in my house. You know, my kids have deleted all that stuff from their phones. And then, yeah, and then AI is also making us, forcing us to think about this, you know?"

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