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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is the Meaning of Life?
I was brought up by a physicist and a physician. They were more or less committed atheists who had left the church of Scotland as a protest against sectarianism in Glasgow. And I think that atheism isn't really a basis for ordering a society, but it's been all right for me. The real social contract is between the generations, between the dead, the living, and the unborn. To live in a way that honors the dead seeks to learn from their accumulated wisdom.
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