Dr. Jill Lepore
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433 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Dr. Jill Lepore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You want to start a ride service?
You don't study taxis or figure out where the, you know, livery service came from.
You don't look at traffic patterns.
You don't study anything in the past.
You just start new.
You just imagine it all new and you destroy what came before.
Such a rejection of the knowledge and wisdom of earlier human beings.
like the posture of the humanist is one of kind of humility.
Like, isn't it magisterial and majestic how, you know, Homer wrote the Odyssey so long ago and it's still so powerful and the kind of timelessness of, of literature and the arts, um,
the infinite beauty of humanity's capacity, you know, capacity for making things.
That's just, it's just not the ethos, right?
Like, it's like, no, we'll do it better.
It doesn't matter what anybody did before.
It's, we're innovating, we're disrupting.
It's like the culture is just so fetishized on the future that it doesn't have that, like, let's listen to what other people who came before might have known.
That's still wisdom.
And it's,
And that makes for a very poor reading of literature, right?
Like, we could have a great argument about what Isaac Asimov meant by that story.
Like, it's not like a determinant.
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