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I can never do this without you. Today's show is part two in a series on high digger. I hope you love the show today.

So just like last episode, I want to begin today all the way back and antiquity.

Back in the days when it all began. The days in high digger thinks so many of these wrong ways of looking at the world and our existence and so many other things.

This is back when the seeds were planted for all those ideas that eventually got us so far off track.

Now let's assume for a second that high diggers write. The philosophers have been making massive assumptions from the very beginning.

They've been clouding our ability to see existence clearly. You know, shame on you, Descartes.

But should we really be shaming Descartes? Should that be our attitude? Seriously, looking back, can we really be so disappointed with these thinkers and the conclusions that they arrived at?

Quick thought experiment. Put yourself in the open-toed sandals of somebody living all the way back in antiquity.

What would that be like? What would it feel like to be a human being back then?

When you're in a thinkin' mood and you go on a walk and you look around yourself pondering all things existence?

Think of how absolutely chaotic and random the natural world might seem like to you, not knowing what we know now.

On the other hand, think of how well-ordered and obviously governed the natural world might seem like to you.

You know, it's so easy to conflate our experience of the world in 2017 with theirs and 400 BC.

It's so easy when you try to imagine yourself as somebody actually living back in antiquity to just assume that

what it would be like for me to live in ancient Greece is basically the same as my experience of the world right now.

I'd just be an olive farmer, you know? Or a working at one of them gyro stands.

But seriously, put yourself in the shoes of Plato and Aristotle for a second.

They don't have encyclopedia Britannica, they don't have Google when they're confused about something.

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