I'm Not a Humanist, but I'm Passionate About the Intellectual Brilliance of Humans

i'm really passionate about the intellectual brilliance of humans. And i say that in what i hope to be anthropicentric way, because i am not a humanist. We have this incredible power to use imaginative abstract thought and to use complex language to communicate abstract thoughts to one another. This is the basis of our ability to form sort of mythic frameworks, and also sciences. The reality of humanity is that we have always been very multi cultural. We've always been a quite sort of cosmopolitan. A, the silk roads networks, my god. I mean, they're so undervalued and under explored, i think, especially in popular culture. Ah, just the fact that we can

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