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Jason Crawford — The Roots of Progress (EP.162)

Infinite Loops

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The Importance of Optimism

Culture is inculcating a defenseless victim style mentality. A culture that is producing entitled victimized non-agenic people. How the hell is that going to fill the needs for rational optimism with lots of agency? Come on, give me a harder question. The problem with complacent optimism is it's often not true. Sometimes we're not on the right track. Sometimes the problems are looming and huge. It can be a little unclear what kind of optimism you're talking about.

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