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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: uncertainty
6 Sept 2023 Conversations with Tyler Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men
“Psychologists have speculated it was an actual psychological syndrome of some kind, but of course, we don’t know.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- uncertainty
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- 6 Sept 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Oh, really? What is behind that? Psychologists have speculated it was an actual psychological syndrome of some kind, but of course, we don’t know. I’ve not read travel novels of this time, and it’s clear that there’s some form to the genre that he’s making fun of at some points in the book, where he’s just like, “readers of these kind of novels.” He’ll say that, and then he’ll juxtapose that with a “Dear Reader,” as if you’re supposed to be different, but then he’ll provide you with the exact same things, as if he doesn’t actually have that high of an opinion of you as a reader.…
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