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Why J.S. Mill Matters w/ Tara Westover

Past Present Future

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The Importance of Grounding in Conflict

I think we live in a time where people are exquisitely attuned to privilege and all of its forms, except for maybe education. I feel like education is the one thing that we still kind of have a bit of a mythology that people get it on their own merit. And mostly they don't actually, they mostly get access to books and ideas and universities because their parents can afford it. But there was something about the way he asked that made me feel like it wasn't like everything about me was backward. We can be wrong about something and there still can be value to this.

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