Episode #165 ... Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature and Other Things

第 165 集...拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生 - 自然和其他事物

Philosophize This‪!‬

社会与文化

2022-04-30

27 分钟
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  • So since the dawn of civilization, human beings in one way or another have been at war with each other.

  • Whether it's a culture war, economic war, all the way down to an actual physical invasion of a country.

  • Whether it's a war of ideas.

  • You know, religions fighting other religions.

  • Philosophers who can't stop arguing about the minutiae.

  • Even that guy that spends all day screaming at bots on the internet.

  • Even he is a warrior in humanity's fight against our robot overlords.

  • Leave it to us human beings to never run out of creative ways to argue with each other about stuff.

  • And Ralph Aldo Emerson wouldn't feel bad stating the obvious here

  • that the one thing we definitely don't have a shortage of in this world over the course of history is disunity within our species.

  • But why is that?

  • He would ask.

  • I mean, none of us like being at war with other people.

  • We try our best to prevent fighting between cultures.

  • But for as long as we've been working on this whole project of getting along with each other,