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So I've been doing this show for a few years now. Naturally, the show attracts inquisitive people

that love to learn. Naturally from there, you can expect folks are going to be sending in questions.

And it makes sense that a lot of those questions are going to be the exact same question asked

over and over again. Not only because they're responding to the same gaps that I leave in the

episodes due to my limitations as a communicator, but also even just the Pareto principle.

Right? You know, it's just the way it's going to be. 20% of the questions are going to be asked

80% of the time. And there's one of those questions in particular that's been reoccurring ever since

the the very inception of this podcast. I think it's worth talking about a little bit today at the

beginning of the episode. And the question is this, who are the philosophers of 2016?

Who are the philosophers of our modern day? More specifically, people just starting out on the

podcast, often listen to the first few episodes of the show. You know, we're we're talking about

antiquity. We're talking about veritable superstars during their day and age, right? Socrates,

Plato, Aristotle. I think people see those guys and they and they start to get confused. And it's

totally understandable. I asked this question a dozen times at the beginning of my philosophical

inquiry. I looked at Socrates and Plato and Aristotle and and their level of influence on all the

people around them. And I asked myself, who is the Plato of our day and age? Who's the Aristotle?

Who's the Socrates? Is it is it Neil deGrasse Tyson? Is it Pope Francis? Is it is it former host of

the celebrity apprentice and future president of these great United States, Mr. Donald J. Trump?

Well, lucky for us. I think the answer is none of these people. Unless you want to cherry pick

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