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A really wonderful TED talk from Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories > he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicat
by yboris 5y ago
A really wonderful TED talk from Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories
> he asks us to step away from thinking of our lives -- and our messy, complicated irrational world -- in terms of a simple narrative.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simple_stories?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/tyler_cowen_be_suspicious_of_simpl...
- uoaei 5y agoQuite a simple narrative that's being presented here ;)
- yboris 5y agoThe speaker concludes with the self-referential comment, saying something like "and of course, here I am, giving you a narrative" implying we can't escape them, but at least we can slow down our thinking to contemplate whether we'd like to endorse any particular point of view ;)