Don't put one aspect of life over all the others
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It's not every, it's not all of it. And we, we make ourselves poorer, you know, spiritually by taking one aspect of human life and putting it over all else, whether that
Episode 239: Fuzzing (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:50:22 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Discussing a piece on how people knew the earth through poetry and philosophy (quoting Dante) long before photographs, Dave says the West has a physicalist mindset: if it isn't material, it isn't real. Science is one part of human experience. We make ourselves spiritually poorer by raising any single part (economics, philosophy, the hard sciences) above everything else.