Ryan Holiday
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37,606 appearances
206 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard yesterday
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yeah, being able to enjoy the absurdity of existence is is a sort of a shortcut to joy.
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And it is absurd.
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I mean, it makes no sense that we're here.
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No.
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That that any of the like it's all it's all ridiculous.
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Oh, y you mean just like uh we expect it to be so much that we miss?
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Yes.
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Yeah, probably n not unlike, you know, watching endless amounts of pornography dulls you to sort of regular normal experiences.
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And yeah, if you step back and you sort of detox, you do you are able to to sort of be delighted by the absurdity of existence.
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I was thinking the other day like what it must have been like for Europeans to see a kangaroo for the first time.
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Just like they just get off the
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ship and then there's just this thing hopping around and like um what that was and then I and then I was like and then what did the what did the Aboriginal Australians like think of this person in armor?
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And like
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Like like it wearing like a I mean I I think it was a little later so they probably weren't wearing a full suit of armor.
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But like just but yeah just like when Columbus gets off the ship, let's say in a in in in the New World and they're just like what is this
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Yeah.
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Nonsense.
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Yeah.
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I mean, obviously it's scary and it meant uh, you know, this horrendous uh, you know, sort of plague of different diseases were about to come down on everyone.
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