Ryan Holiday

So there's these reports coming back of these cannibalistic tribes and these primitive savages on the other side of the ocean.

And he writes this famous essay called On Cannibals, which you'd think is going to be sort of racist and closed-minded.

And he's like...

Do they draw and quarter their enemies?

Do they burn people at the stake?

That's what we're doing right now in this religious.

We're arguing over whether God wants you to do this or that.

And if you don't agree, we burn you at the stake as a heretic or we tie ropes to your arms and legs and pull you in different directions by horse until you come apart while you're still alive.

I'm not sure they're the barbarians.

Yeah.

And so part of what study and being open minded and then, of course, travel, what it does is it allows you to see your own practices from a new perspective or through the reflection of somebody else's practices.

And then it should ideally.

open you up and get you to question, well, why are we doing it this way?

And is this the best way to do things?

And that's the exchange of cultures.

He represents multiple cases of people like...

pigs and cows and stuff.

And I think it's like he tries 5000 cases as a lawyer.

Like we tend to think of Abraham again.

We think of these people as like coming out fully formed or like right.