patrissimo posted this video from last year of Tyler Cowen talking about our vulnerability to stories. I'd never seen it. It's a very well constructed examination of one kind of ur-theme I've been examining recently, so of course I think it's immensely important you watch it and think about it critically. Here:

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When I ponder the strangeness of being almost 25, I see that every age is equally strange. The sensation of strangeness arises mostly from having a mind with impulse to explore possibilies as it hears about them, and having particular implict labels for what is real and what is imaginary ( Read more... )