Edward Frenkel

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2,304 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2023 last heard Apr 2023

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I had this revelation that I'm actually fighting with myself, with my own fears.

And then I learned about his father, that his father died when he was young.

And that he's, in fact, he's very, to his credit, he's very sincere and upfront about it.

Self-disclosure, I think it's very essential, by the way, in all this discussion.

Like what really motivates you?

He said it publicly many times, even as early as 2015, I could find this information, that he wanted to reunite with his father in the cloud.

And suddenly I saw him not as a caricature,

that exemplified all my fears, but as a human being, a child longing for his father, grieving for his father.

So suddenly it became a love story.

So in other words, I've seen it in myself, this

capacity to project my own fears and then fight with other people over something that actually was my own.

And as soon as I got to this point of seeing him and then my next lecture, actually, I talked about it, about him in this way.

And I, and I said, look, you know, it's a, it's a love story.

And he is actually, um, it's not how I would want to reunite with my father, uh,

But like you said, if I am consistent, I have to allow the possibility that different people perceive things differently.

And so for him, that's his imagination.

So you know how, who is this?

Voltaire, I think.

It's ascribed to Voltaire.

It's like, I disagree with you, but I will fight to death for you to have the right to say it.

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