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Title text: I feel like more comics need to use the word salience.

Votey

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And the reason the feds are hiding sasquatch is he's living like men were meant to live.

Agh, why do you listen to this podcast!?

The guy acts like he has secret knowledge or insight, but he's just making it up! If you want to know things, read a book by someone who knows what they're talking about!

Look, I'm not after fundamental truth. Or truth in general. I'm just an ape in a post-religion, post-authority, post-trust society looking for a large man to organize my community and tell me who the enemies are.

If that requires his followers to believe absurdities that make us look stupid to outsiders well then hey, that simply increases the salience of my in-group identity.

Huh.

You're remarkably self-aware for such a fucking moron.

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I'll listen ironically until I've lost all my epistemological bearings.

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