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Living With Problems

All philosophy is a cope, but that's not a bad thing

Venkatesh Rao
May 29, 2021
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The idea I want to talk about this week is a pretty simple one:

Every philosophical idea you appreciate pairs with a problem you’ve decided to live with in your life. So the more philosophical you are, the more problems you’ve decided to live with rather than solve.

Or to put it more simply, philosophical ideas are copes. But that’s not necessarily a bad…

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