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What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Origins of the Primitive Mind

I think of your idea of a primitive mind as relating to both our intuitive urges we have, like I want those calories. And it's also relating to sort of wanting to win or like wanting to be right and sort of cuz lumping together those kind of primal urges and desires that we have as a team,. Yeah, totally. It's like it maps on to like impulses that don't actually make sense in today's world for some reason. You know, why do we again, we drive ourselves to incredible delusion with our desire to be right? To me, this is the same struggle going on.

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