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Here listening to the Partially examined life episode 224, part two, we've been discussing

Kirchgaard's 1846 essay The Present Age and Hubert Dreifers' 2004 essay Nihilism on the

Information Highway. We've laid out Kirchgaard's picture of leveling, of how the age itself

has distanced on excellence and used on what the moral psychology behind that is, who's

coming to Ben Envy. I'm hoping we can in the second half hit on some more specific topics

that he gets into in the text. Given what you said, John, about what immediately prompted

this, I feel like maybe some of the disconnects if we're thinking, this isn't describing what

I observe in internet mobs or something. It's because it almost seems very specific to

the kind of wag. He was responding to who would dare to criticize him in this corsair.

He's saying, isn't that typical? Isn't that just like what the press does? We might just

want to say, okay, well, he's characterizing a certain kind of attitude toward humor,

and then we can use on whether that is as widespread now or then as he seems to think

it is. He was made fun of and Kirchgaard and cartoons for draw of him and so on and so

forth. Although that seems a little old-fashioned, there is some continuity frequently when people

come subject for a public problem, they will Kirchgaard them and send them our images of

their face and get very dark. It wasn't just in the press, it spread to the entire society,

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