What Lionel Messi’s World Cup Win Represents (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_493)
The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad
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🗓️ 18 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody this is Gatsad December 18th 2022 just witnessed the |
| 0:08.5 | arguably the greatest soccer match of all time with the divine, Leonel Missy, winning the World Cup. |
| 0:18.6 | I can't tell you the elation, the existential joy that I feel at him having finally lifted it. I was going to |
| 0:29.0 | actually write an article describing you know many different angles to explore psychological angles that try to |
| 0:40.8 | unpack, you know, why it is that he can instill or trigger such emotions in billions |
| 0:47.6 | of people, including yours truly and including all of our, my family, all of whom were in complete tears. I was going to prepare a whole sort of |
| 0:56.9 | structured set of arguments but I'm too excited to let the moment pass so I |
| 1:01.9 | will just ad lib here and as I typically do when I can do these |
| 1:07.3 | sad truth clips and then maybe later I may come back with a more structured analysis. |
| 1:15.0 | I guess the first thing is the reason why messy means so much to me is because he actually transcends national borders. |
| 1:25.2 | Messy is not Argentinian. |
| 1:27.8 | Messy is intergalactic, right? |
| 1:29.7 | I'm not born in Argentina. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm not from Rosario, but I identify with him as does my |
| 1:36.9 | Brazilian colleague who texted me to say I'm rooting for messy now, as did billions of people all of whom don't come there's only 45 |
| 1:45.4 | million Argentinians and yet everybody looks at messy and see something truly |
| 1:51.6 | unique and glorious. You know people might be inspired by a |
| 1:56.5 | great painting or a great poem or you know a great classical symphony. |
| 2:06.6 | Well, beauty comes in many forms. |
| 2:08.8 | And actually a few years ago, maybe I think it was a summer ago or two summers ago, I was asked to maybe do a chat |
| 2:16.0 | with A.C. Graling, the famous philosopher out of England on beauty, a discussion on beauty, and I was going to of course discuss the evolutionary |
| 2:25.4 | roots of beauty. |
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