02 / prediction

16 Jan 2019

I think I had an experience that many people have had, which is they want to study philosophy because they think it’s going to be about the meaning of life, and they get into a philosophy class, and it turns out to resemble something more like algebra, and they’re discouraged and move onto some other discipline.

“I think I had an experience that many people have had, which is they want to study philosophy because they think it’s going to be about the meaning of life, and they get into a philosophy class, and it turns out to resemble something more like algebra, and they’re discouraged and move onto some other discipline.”

Speaker: Larissa MacFarquhar
Episode: Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Larissa MacFarquhar

What Larissa said.

I would say that the predictions of the death of publishing and the death of reading have been going on for decades and they should ignore them.