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Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Macbeth: Is It Escapist or Pseudo Art?

It seems like there also might be a legitimate distinction between art that sort of potentially purely escapist, and potentially are going to stay at least. But take Macbeth. If you're someone who is prone to this passion, then seeing it depicted in this way and feeling your passion of ambition excited alongside it can potentially change the way you view your passion of ambitions. And so, like, but people like it. I mean, that is okay maybe not in the past hundred years but I mean Shakespeare was popular art. The ordinary people went crazy for it. It's less plausible that there are these two kinds of art art and pseudo art and there's just two kinds of viewers who see

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