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Episodes 192 and 193 on Liberal Education were very thought-provoking for us, and thanks

to the generous support of PEL listeners we were able to fund, recording and full editing

on two more follow-up discussions.

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So episode 192 as your recall was on Alan Blooms, the closing of the American mind, Wes

and Seth and I recorded for about an hour to follow up on parts of the book we didn't

treat.

So here the introduction to the main part of the discussion.

So I would characterize this as if I had to give an episode title for this.

He actually uses the phrase in here, the tools of last manhood.

So he's concerned about, he does like Nietzsche a lot, and maybe it used to be in a critic

take on Nietzsche, but his condemnation of his peers, of his students seems like it

very explicitly uses the language of Nietzsche's last man.

So the tools of last manhood being anything practical, right?

Any, an MBA or anything that you learn that you can use to make a living, is that the...

The context which he actually brought it up was psychoanalysis, that that being one of

the things which is, you know, if you wanted we could talk about what he has to say about

...