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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

They gave their lives, they gave their livelihoods, they gave their status, they gave their property, and they put it all on the line to give us our Bill of Rights. But those Bill of Rights, the moment that we signed them, there were forces within our society that that began trying to chip away at them.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

They gave their lives, they gave their livelihoods, they gave their status, they gave their property, and they put it all on the line to give us our Bill of Rights. But those Bill of Rights, the moment that we signed them, there were forces within our society that that began trying to chip away at them.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that happens in every generation, and it is the obligation of every generation to safeguard and protect those freedoms.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that happens in every generation, and it is the obligation of every generation to safeguard and protect those freedoms.

904.394 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And that happens in every generation, and it is the obligation of every generation to safeguard and protect those freedoms.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I suppose the way that Camus viewed the world and the way that the Stoics did and a lot of the existentialists was that it was so absurd and that the problems and the tasks that were given just to live a life are so insurmountable.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I suppose the way that Camus viewed the world and the way that the Stoics did and a lot of the existentialists was that it was so absurd and that the problems and the tasks that were given just to live a life are so insurmountable.

936.69 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I suppose the way that Camus viewed the world and the way that the Stoics did and a lot of the existentialists was that it was so absurd and that the problems and the tasks that were given just to live a life are so insurmountable.

936.69 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

That the only way that we can kind of get back the gods for giving us this, you know, this impossible task of living life was to embrace it and to enjoy it and to do our best at it. I mean, to me, I... You know, I read Camus, particularly in the Myth of Sisyphus, as a parable.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

That the only way that we can kind of get back the gods for giving us this, you know, this impossible task of living life was to embrace it and to enjoy it and to do our best at it. I mean, to me, I... You know, I read Camus, particularly in the Myth of Sisyphus, as a parable.

957.049 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

That the only way that we can kind of get back the gods for giving us this, you know, this impossible task of living life was to embrace it and to enjoy it and to do our best at it. I mean, to me, I... You know, I read Camus, particularly in the Myth of Sisyphus, as a parable.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And it's the same lesson that I think he writes about in The Plague, where we're all given these insurmountable tasks in our lives, but that... By doing our duty, by being of service to others, we can bring meaning to a meaningless chaos, and we can bring order to the universe. And Sisyphus was kind of the iconic hero of the Stoics, and he was a man because he did something good.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And it's the same lesson that I think he writes about in The Plague, where we're all given these insurmountable tasks in our lives, but that... By doing our duty, by being of service to others, we can bring meaning to a meaningless chaos, and we can bring order to the universe. And Sisyphus was kind of the iconic hero of the Stoics, and he was a man because he did something good.

984.025 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

And it's the same lesson that I think he writes about in The Plague, where we're all given these insurmountable tasks in our lives, but that... By doing our duty, by being of service to others, we can bring meaning to a meaningless chaos, and we can bring order to the universe. And Sisyphus was kind of the iconic hero of the Stoics, and he was a man because he did something good.

984.025 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He delivered a gift to humanity. He angered the gods, and they condemned him to push a rock up the hill every day, and then it would roll down. When he got to the top, it would roll down, and he'd spend the night going back down the hill to collect it and then rolling it back up the hill again. And the task was absurd. It was insurmountable. He could never win.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He delivered a gift to humanity. He angered the gods, and they condemned him to push a rock up the hill every day, and then it would roll down. When he got to the top, it would roll down, and he'd spend the night going back down the hill to collect it and then rolling it back up the hill again. And the task was absurd. It was insurmountable. He could never win.

1021.212 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

He delivered a gift to humanity. He angered the gods, and they condemned him to push a rock up the hill every day, and then it would roll down. When he got to the top, it would roll down, and he'd spend the night going back down the hill to collect it and then rolling it back up the hill again. And the task was absurd. It was insurmountable. He could never win.

1021.212 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But the last line of that book is one of the great lines, which is something to the extent that I can picture Sisyphus smiling. Because Camus' belief was that even though his task was insurmountable, that he was a happy man. And he was a happy man because he put his shoulder to the stone. He took his duty. He embraced the task and the, you know, and the absurdity of life.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But the last line of that book is one of the great lines, which is something to the extent that I can picture Sisyphus smiling. Because Camus' belief was that even though his task was insurmountable, that he was a happy man. And he was a happy man because he put his shoulder to the stone. He took his duty. He embraced the task and the, you know, and the absurdity of life.

1043.682 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

But the last line of that book is one of the great lines, which is something to the extent that I can picture Sisyphus smiling. Because Camus' belief was that even though his task was insurmountable, that he was a happy man. And he was a happy man because he put his shoulder to the stone. He took his duty. He embraced the task and the, you know, and the absurdity of life.

1043.682 View full episode β†’