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Learning and Governance (with Emerson Spartz)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Dangers of Taboo Topics
I'm fascinated by taboo topics in general because a taboo topic is things that culturally we've been programmed not to like think about. The question is why are they dangerous? That's really important to know why things are dangerous. Like comedians, for example, are the equivalent of the canaries in the coal mine for exploring to be ideas. Comedians aren't just about humor. They also are the only ones who have the ability to like safely explore, um, you know, taboo ideas. Because they make jokes about it, there's plausible deniability about whether they're saying it or not say it. And so, um, it's like safe for them to like point things out that
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