My Chat with Classicist Dr. Spencer Klavan - How to Save the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_518)
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The Granddaddy of All Idea Pathogens
The question is titled freedom from reality. In my book I talk about the human, you know the West is being press it eyes by a set of idea pathogens right and then I discuss all of these different ideas. The grand daddy of all idea pathogens is postmodernism precisely because it removes the possibility that there's even an epistemology of truth. And so people are attracted to the offer yeah I would love to be able to backflip and dunk and I think it's 12 foot basketball net I can't but it's kind of attractive to suggest that maybe there's some way in which simply by thinking about that I can make it so. But we also have to recognize that probably
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