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Episode #174 ... Simone Weil - The Mathematician

Philosophize This!

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How Do We Model Reality?

We create an incentive in our societies for people to join a collective way of thinking, and then structure things in a way that spiritually cripples them. This goes back to the concept of force that we talked about on the first episode. The goal of people in positions of power is to turn people from ends in themselves into just a means to some end that some person in power has. They incentivize collective thought because people are much easier to control politically when they're all thinking the same way.

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