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Alex Danco — On Self-Delusion, Sancho Panza, Safe Words & Seinfeld (EP.156)

Infinite Loops

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The Baked in of Innovations

If an idea's time has come, then it will be invented in parallel all three different times. It may be that the thing that is actually happening when these discoveries are happening in parallel is a set of circumstances that allows society to temporarily tolerate the people who are hallucinating enough to have the ideas first. That picks up on Bucky Fuller's idea of you're either tuned in or not tuned in. And he uses the example of the microscopic world until we invented a microscope. We had no fucking idea what was going on there.

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