Alain De Botton
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1,037 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2024
last heard 1 Jul
Alain De Botton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Again, I'm less interested in the specifics of these gods.
We might find other gods.
We might find other festivals.
We might look at things differently.
But there's a methodology there.
There's a way of structuring experience which modern society doesn't have.
And I'm very interested in drawing attention to that.
About the same time as you were very prominent on what looked like another side.
I very much like your use of the word ecstasy.
I think it's bang on.
And, you know, let's go straight to the nightclub at this point.
You know, the word ecstasy has been linked to, obviously, traditionally, a drug that you take at a nightclub.
And, you know, even if you think of the nightclub, the nightclub, there are nightclubs all over the world.
They don't have very high cultural prestige.
They don't have, there's no psychological meaning appended to them.
There's no transcendental function.
They are in the world of fun, of recreation.
which I think is a real pity.
And I think one of the things that the modern world does is it misses out on drawing from things like the nightclub, the themes the previous ages would have mined in them.
Totally, totally.
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