Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: Extravagance Personified
Description: Dave Brisbin 6.20.21
What does everything we experience in life teach us about life? What does everything that our fathers, our culture, and institutions demand from us show us about the way life works? That any approval we receive is always based on performance? That the basis of life is legal and transactional? That not only is there no free lunch, there are only so many lunches to go around, and we must fight for finite resources if we want to survive. In other words, life teaches us a scarcity mentality. And we learn that lesson so well that it colors...