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Published · transcript-backedBruno Maçães: evaluation
26 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
“Adventure is fundamentally about being aware that there may be a completely different lifestyle that you’re not aware of, and they’re just passing you by because you’re not looking for it.”
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- Bruno Maçães
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- 26 Sept 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How is it that this idea of adventure has been drained out of contemporary liberalism? First of all, from a theoretical point of view, we think we know all the answers. We think we know how to live. What you get today is, in fact, this attitude of constant preaching, of telling you what you should be doing and what life is for. We have the answers. Of course, from a theoretical point of view, adventure is about not knowing the answers, looking around. Adventure is fundamentally about being aware that there may be a completely different lifestyle that you’re not aware of, and they’re just passing you by because you’re not looking for it. I don’t find this anxiety present in contemporary liberalism at all. Is early Fukuyama, the caricatured version of Fukuyama — that history either is over or will be over — is that going to be right eventually, or just never?…
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