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Pod save us: Casting wide to make sense of nonsensical times
No, we don’t know everything, which is where political commentator Ezra Klein’s podcasts come in
Long before social media there was an old Greek dude who thought he was the wisest man alive because he knew he knew nothing. His harping on about his ignorance was to encourage his students to continually search for knowledge and not act like know-it-all douchebags.
His name was Socrates.
Fast-forward a few millennia and the prevailing attitude seems to be that we should all act as if we know everything. ..
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