Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

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So towards the end of the last episode,

or take it began painting a picture of our responsibilities as human beings.

He talked about the need for us to do the work of truly understanding our circumstances.

He talked about the relentless pursuit of coming into contact with the boundaries of our circumstances,

to test those boundaries, being both brave and humble enough to embark out into the unknown.

You know, as he put it, having the theoretical heroism to question our biases,

constantly willing to sacrifice our own theoretical framework for one that might bring us a little more clarity about the world around us.

He talked about all this and we ended last time starting to entertain a certain kind of rebuttal to our

take as work from a personality type and a voice that is no doubt all too familiar to us.

It's a kind of person that makes a case that is perfectly reasonable on the surface.

What if I don't want to spend every second of my life thinking about stuff all the time?

What if I just want to relax in my life a little?

And look, it's not like I'm some completely oblivious person, you know,

lasing about on my bean bag chair roller blade into the fridge every day.

No, I'm a working professional.

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