Derek Thompson

And so I guess I wonder...

And again, I might completely regret ending the podcast this way.

I wonder even if you completely disagree with my summary of an aspect of Nietzsche, whether that too is a way of grasping at what you want is a reemergence of instinct which comes from the self and cannot possibly come from a metric or from the rules of some game that we've fallen into.

That was a beautiful answer.

I don't know that I can summarize it because I'm pathologically obsessed with summarizing things.

I'm going to try anyway.

It seems to me like you're saying that perhaps not the meaning of life, but a meaning of life is both the individual cultivation of a value system and the day-by-day struggle, chosen struggle, to live by it.

Yeah.

But you need both.

You need to be both the author of the value system, the author of...

the game, so to speak, and the person who chooses day after day after day after day to play by its rules.

Yeah.

Something like that?

Yes.

Tinwen, thank you so much.

Thank you, man.

Hello, and welcome to Plain English.

So several weeks ago, we recorded an episode of this show called Everything is Television, where I pointed out that everything, social media, AI, podcasts, was evolving toward video.

And as I said on that show, I didn't expect that I would be able to resist the tide of history.

So here we are, in a new chapter of this show, as this is our first video podcast.