Episode #235 ... The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism - Byung Chul Han

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  So by this point, we've done three episodes on Byung-Chul Han,

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  and it can start to seem like the guy might just be a negative person, like in general.

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  Guy needs like an edible arrangement sent to him or something.

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  Cheer him up a bit, you know?

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  I mean, think of all the criticism this guy brings into a room.

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  My God.

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  Always complaining about something going on in modern society.

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  Apparently, we all live in a digital panopticon, if you're him.

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  Something that most of us, I guess, don't even know that we're in,

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  let alone us being capable of finding a way out of it.

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  He says we have very little that binds or connects us together anymore as a species.

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  that we have no shared understanding of truth anymore or of community.

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  We don't even have shared stories to tie our lives together.

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  That's what we talked about a couple episodes ago.

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