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Or-I mean, and-please allow me to plug into a large mimetic complex so that my time isn't wasted with references. For example, I drove here, and I have this Discord server of people who talk about the show and the culture. And I wanted to announce myself as coming in. So I said this line from the HMS | Or-I mean, and-please allow me to plug into a large mimetic complex so that my time isn't wasted with references. For example, I drove here, and I have this Discord server of people who talk about the show and the culture. And I wanted to announce myself as coming in. So I said this line from the HMS Pinafore, “My gallant crew, good morning!” and I was hoping somebody would echo back, “Sir, good morning!” | ||
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I want them to get the reference, and nobody has the reference, because why is anyone maintaining HMS | I want them to get the reference, and nobody has the reference, because why is anyone maintaining HMS Pinafore from the 1800s in 2020 on a Discord server? | ||
Ryan Hamilton | Ryan Hamilton | ||
Well, that is when | Well, that is when its- I mostly write about ancient philosophy. So reading Montegna, or Seneca, they'll quote lines from the Odyssey or Virgil or they're quoting poetry in plays and things. And it never occurs to them to attribute the line. It's always in the footnote from the translator. This is a lost line from a Euripides play or whatever, right? But in the ancient world, it was assumed that you'd not only have seen said play, but you would have seen said play so many times that you would recognize it. And you know, I think the problem is there was just so much less stuff, right? **People used to learn Seneca when they were being taught Latin, but now they don't learn Latin. So they're definitely not going to learn Seneca’s epigrams, so there, I think there there's an element of that to it. But also, it's like, Look, there was only a handful of playwrights in Athens. Now we have all those playwrights, and we have Shakespeare, and we have 100 years of movies with the movie canon. | ||
Eric Weinstein | |||
It is the one thing that I really see going in the opposite direction is that we remember these scenes. | |||
Ryan Hamilton | |||
Yeah. Like if I said to you, “You can’t handle the truth. Everyone would know what you’re talking about. Right? | |||
Eric Weinstein | |||
But if I said to you, “Put that coffee down!”-would that be resonant with you? A little bit? | |||
Ryan Hamilton | |||
Glen Gary, Glen Ross-yeah, yeah. Okay. “Coffee is for closers.” Yes. | |||
Those are the-we can do that to some extent. | |||
Well, one of the so what I do because I do this email every morning I write an email called daily stoic and it's one sort of stoic inspired meditation every day, instead of quoting plays because no one gets those. I use song lyrics a lot and I find song lyrics are also something that people have a have a lot o | |||
familiarity with really depends on what era it does. When I found out that my millennial co workers had never heard bridge over troubled waters by Simon and Garfunkel. I | familiarity with really depends on what era it does. When I found out that my millennial co workers had never heard bridge over troubled waters by Simon and Garfunkel. I |
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