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Published · transcript-backedMichael Pollan: belief
15 Aug 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
“I think she does a beautiful job reminding us who’s behind these statistics and these strangers in our town squares.”
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- Michael Pollan
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- belief
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- 15 Aug 2018
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Yes. It’s about the refugee crisis. It’s a very contemporary book, set in Germany since Angela Merkel has let in lots of refugees, and the culture’s struggling with that. I think she does a beautiful job reminding us who’s behind these statistics and these strangers in our town squares. That’s really how the book begins, a retired professor trying to come to terms with who are these people. He gets deeper and deeper into that world. Beautifully written, very well controlled writer, and it does what fiction should do, which is expand the circle of your sympathy and empathy. Michael Pollan, thank you very much.…
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