If the mechanical world is just that mechanical, how does it become transcendent?

Galileo, Boyle, Newton, and many others saw themselves as recovering this lost wisdom.

Technology had sufficiently progressed to reveal that mankind and the earth he inhabited was not actually the centre of the universe.

It threatened to upend their entire body of cosmological knowledge.

The process of distinguishing science from superstition had begun,

and the great minds of the era dedicated themselves to this work.

Podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,000, 183.

I'm joined by Bo.

Raz.

Hello, no.

And apparently we're going to be talking about the clash between Elon and the Donald.

Now London House prices are crashing and what women in the West have to look forward to.

So, you know, look forward to that.

Right. So, is you.

Okay. I thought we could just talk a little bit then about the Clash of the Titans. Oh yes.

The sort of epic fallout between the Donald and Good King Elon.

It did escalate quite fast.

Yeah, it got real serious, real quick, didn't it?

Yeah. It was funny. And it was, I mean, it's only been going for, what, a week, maybe a bit more than a week.

I'm actually glad we didn't cover it immediately.

A bit like the Zia Yusuf thing.

Let it sort of simmer for a few days.

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