Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").
Very Bad Wizards
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You Might Choose Allah or Away, or the Wrong Mother Goddess of the Four Noble Truths
"If you worship money and things, if they are what tap, you tap the real meaning in life," he says. "You might choose allah or away, or the wicked mother goddess of the four noble truths." He adds that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. That's exactly right, casel, but i haven't read this yetha ha ha ha. Then soye, he says, this is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. And we can easily fall into prioritizing certain things.
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