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EP. 08 The Classics

Uncancelled History

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Is There a Bias of the Present Moment?

I find it rather touching when you read somebody you think of as a great classic writer. You read who believed something, but we now think how could you possibly know that? There's an example in Isaac Walton on the great 70th century writers in England. And he says to me, I mean, he thinks these people are all mistaken. Well, I didn't see that going, but it's good that we actually know that. We'd be better off if we no longer... If we excised that knowledge of how people use it. Exactly. It comes back to this point of humility. The future generations will say, what were they ... I'm sure like industrial farming.

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