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How we all became a brand

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Enlightenment and the Disenchantment of the World

In the 19th century ideas about kind of proto vibes you could call them energies currents that there's something that kind of some force in the world. And particularly this becomes more and more apparent in different ways both in America and in Europe. The person who is a self maker be they an artistic celebrity or a rugged bootstrapped entrepreneur is someone who is like a demi God like a mage. We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.

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