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🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Join us for a mini decoding to get us back into the swing of things as we examine a viral clip that had religious reactionaries, sensemakers, and academic philosophers in a bit of a tizzy. Specifically, we are covering reactions to a clip from a 2014 TEDx talk by Yuval Noah Harari, the well-known author and academic, in which he discussed how human rights (and really all of human culture) are a kind of 'fiction'.
Get ready for a thrilling ride as your intrepid duo plunges into a beguiling world of symbolism, cultural evolution, and outraged philosophers. By the end of the episode, we have resolved many intractable philosophical problems including whether monkeys are bastards, if first-class seating is immoral, and where exactly human rights come from. Philosophers might get mad but that will just prove how right we are.
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0:19.0 | Welcome to the Code in the Guru's, a podcast where an anthropologist and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has to offer and we try to work out what they're talking about. |
0:26.3 | I'm Matthew Brown, Australian extraordinary high-level skier, all of that. |
0:32.0 | The guy over there is Christopher Kavna, dashingly handsome, |
0:35.5 | Northern Irish, very young, smart brain on him. No, no, it's me. I had you all fooled, but it's me, me Chris doing the intro because Matthew is back from his world travels back from the |
0:50.2 | D.T.G. Company retreat in Japan where we met up as people heard and he's managed to |
0:56.4 | survive the trip but not entirely you're not operating at a hundred percent is |
1:00.5 | that fair to say professor Brown that is fair to say Professor Bryan? |
1:03.0 | That is fair to say. |
1:04.0 | G'da Chris, not a bad intro. |
1:06.0 | I have some notes. |
1:07.0 | I'll share with you later. |
1:08.0 | Yeah, no, it was a great holiday. |
1:11.0 | Great to see you, great to go skiing, great to show off skiing, be a big hit with your son teaching |
1:16.5 | an out of ski. Become an idol for my son, yeah. That poor kid not having someone to look up to on the slopes. No one to mentor him. No father figure. |
1:26.0 | I went on a red thing at the end, a red thing, a red slope. |
1:30.4 | Is it? Good job. My wife wouldn't do that. |
1:33.0 | But no, as so many people do, I picked up a little bit of a sickness, a bit of the |
1:37.6 | plague, the COVID plague on the way home and it's not too bad, bit of all that stuff but I'm getting I'm on the |
1:44.2 | point of order point of order it's probably cool we don't have a diagnostic |
1:48.5 | test to prove that you know I'm rigorous ma I'm here fact- checking but the symptomology the epidemiology from cases that we've |
1:57.9 | studied I've located case zero there I've got a I know a guy the child of my friends who did get diagnosed with it and he was the one he infected us all |
2:06.9 | That's hearsay and remember fortunately you're vaccinated many times we're not anti-vaccine |
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