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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

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The Idiot From Prince Mishkin, From Destoevski

i really love your idea that the simulation, like one way to live life is to kind of explore these other worlds and borrow from them. You then just map out your own life, yourmst sake, stitch together your life with these kind of pieces from literature. The highly educated person is constantly struck by allusion. Everything is an allusion to something that one has read. That's what the real meta verse is. It's the imaginary world that we enter when we read, empathize, and then recognize in our daily lives some scrap of the showed experience that literature gives us. I'm a big fan of French t existentials attat the full spectrum and german harmonh

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