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Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

The Political Orphanage

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being Cast Out

I think when we're talking about large scale mythological elements, then obviously there are imperatives, human imperatives that are sort of baked into the ones that have lasted the longest. You can come up with things that will work that are inaccurate. And as long as the outcome is leading to not dying and reproducing, it doesn't really matter how accurate you were. It's funny that we mention the kind of being cast out thing because if you look at where a lot of our modern discourses on stuff like, you know, cancel culture, you'll find it hilarious that we take so, so, so seriously.

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