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(Classic Episode) Zvi Mowshowitz - How the Worst People in Society Bungled a Pandemic

From the New World

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The Implications of History and Storytelling

The book is about why people can't take stories seriously anymore. It's basically like irony poisoning, right? You've just been exposed to such like top tier like pornogefized storytelling that you're not taking any of it seriously anymore,. That's what he's actually trying to do. I read it as like a stand up comedy and then the audience like laughs at all his punchlines; that's kind of how I read it.

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