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Nobody Knows Anything, Part I
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Nobody Knows Anything, Part I

Bob talks with author Emer Gentway, whose real name is not Emer Gentway, about the benefits of not trusting the reality seemingly arrayed before our eyes.

Tricks of perception, mental shortcuts and a bias toward humanity limit our understanding of our universe and ourselves. Having trouble coping? It may be because you trust too much in what you believe.

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I listen to you because it is like cutting myself to feel pain in my typically decadent, painless life. As being enlightened rather than post-modern, we always strive for Objectivity. Subjectivity is what we are. C.G. Jung: “There is no birth of consciousness without pain.” The knowledgeable person practices humility by being temperate and intentionally listening. It is becoming a lost art as post-modernists live in a world of repressive tolerance with subjectivity through intuition as being good. That is why the Rittenhouse trial can not be validated in the minds of the Woke.

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Adam Curtis's documentary from last year explores this theme too

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