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#465 - Douglas Murray - The Wild Hatred Of The West

Modern Wisdom

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The Complexity of Mind and the Decision of Whether or Not to Deploy It Into the Real World

Orithi says loneliness is a kind of tax we have to pay to atone for complexity of mind. Seth goden had this amazing insight where he said, a a lot of the time we need support, but only the first time around. And i think that's true. A more troubling one, in a way, is the one that the older you get. But er, i was speaking a musician friend the other day, just one of his em seniors d just died. and so it is a sort of eternal process of what tom stophard in arcadia describes. It's a constant process of loss and renewal and discovery and loss and rediscovery again.

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