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Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast

The bliss and the perils of ignorance

Apr 2, 2025
24:27

Aristotle claimed that all humans want to know. But at the same time, we battle a competing desire to not know. Through history, humanity has been repeatedly compelled to ignore realities, seduced by irrational rumours, magical thinking and preposterous prophets. Are we living in a time of particular ignorance? 

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