Today on Young Heretics, I'd like to make the case for why saving the Republic

requires you to turn off your damn phone.

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you need public goods. The thing about a lot of basics that you get from the grocery store is,

first of all, they've got all kinds of weird gross chemicals in them that can have like,

you know, all sorts of weird adverse effects on, you know, people's hormonal balance and

what I like, there's gunk in a lot of name brand stuff or stuff you get at the grocery store,

plus it doesn't look very good. Like you have your sink and it's all clogged up with like,

natty, gross blue soaps and sponges and whatever. Public goods fixes both of those problems. They

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pet food. I really like their snacks a lot. They have these chocolate covered almonds that I just

like can't get enough of, and they have an excellent deal for my listeners. When you go to

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your first order, $15 of free stuff at public goods.com slash heretics. Okay, I'm being a little

facetious, but only the littlest tiny bits. Now, you guys, I think generally know my attitude about

technology and not a technophesimist. I think that there is such a thing as the, you know,

there's going to be such a thing as digital technology. And I think that it is possible for us to

use it to virtue is ends. But I was talking last week a little bit about some of the practicality

of Plato's description of how the public, the perfect state can decay into more and more

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