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You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one

point said on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 181 is something like, how much can people be blamed for their

actions when the whole system they're a part of is corrupt.

When you read, I commend in Jerusalem a report on the banality of evil by Hana Arent from 1963.

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This is Mark Linson-Mire, vitamin P deficient in medicine Wisconsin.

This is Seth Askin, frog-throated in Los Angeles.

This is Wes Holland in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Remember what vitamin P is from the text?

No.

I was just reminded of it just because it's on page one.

It is what the Israelis call protection in government circles and the bureaucracy.

I also got, there was a good phrase somewhere in here, a bicycle writer.

Do you remember what that means as a slur?

You're such a bicycle writer.

I do remember the saying, I don't recall the meaning.

It means you cow-tow to your superiors and kick your subordinates.

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