Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you are listening to The New Discourses podcast.

This is another one of these episodes where I'm just going to kind of talk.

I'm actually going to talk about an essay I wrote a while back on new discourses, which will, by

definition, be more organized in its presentation than what I'm about to say.

So I encourage you to read that essay.

It's called The Three Faces of Man.

I have never actually done a podcast on this.

Normally when I'm in this situation, I would read to you that essay.

I am not going to read my own essay to you in this case, and I would elaborate on it.

Instead, I'm just going to talk about the general idea of that essay.

And the general idea of that essay is to talk about kind of three deep dispositions that people have.

And I think that these are actually leanings that people tend to have.

Maybe they can move from one position to another over time.

But some people tend conservative and some people tend liberal and some

people tend left. And I'm separating those three intentionally. Maybe it would be better not to use

the L word liberal here and to say that some people tend toward common sense. I think they're

normal actually. There would be a great way that people be really mad about to characterize it.

And it turns out that each of these dispositions is perfectly fine. In fact, I think a healthy society,

and this is one reason that you want to

preserve a free society, should have some of all of them. In fact, I think a healthy individual

should have a healthy appreciation for all of them. So each individual should have a healthy

appreciation for these three dispositions. They probably prefer one mode.

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