James Sexton
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Like we're all gonna die.
We're all gonna lose each other.
Everything we built will crumble.
A hundred years from now, everyone who loves you will be gone and everyone you love will be gone.
But it's like our immediate response to that is, well, I'm not gonna think about that.
That's terrible.
Why?
That should be the most liberating, freeing thought in the world.
It should be the most important thought in the world.
And I guess that's why I keep, you know, you have a divorce lawyer and I talk about relationships and I start talking about death.
But I think it's partly because like, yeah, it's endings.
Like divorce is an ending.
You know, death is an ending.
And I think we need to look harder at endings.
And will the path...
of staying together will be clearer to us because we won't lose the plot so easily.
Yeah, I don't you know, I think I have a moral sense but I think you know, there's a there's a line from Rhesus sardonicus that I Used to have hanging on the wall of my office and it goes to that weapon side of me And it is I used to have it memorized.
I think I probably still do he said that I I have resigned myself to temporary complicity with evil in order to accomplish certain strategic objectives for people whose
for people whose safety is more important than my need to maintain moral purity.
Damn.