Great video. Watch it!

(This is Prof. Ada Palmer @adapalmer)

Really I ought to wait 17 days to post this...

The full Dwarkesh Patel podcast interview with Ada Palmer is here:
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

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Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

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Around 44:31 -- the only time resistance fails, is when people feel that partial victory is failure.
Wow.
This is an explanation of why, for example putin's, propaganda is the way it is.
This is an articulation of why purist's argument feel ... counterproductive, ... to put it mildly. Hell, millions in 20th century were killed with pikes of purist arguments physicalization.