Benjamin C. George - Running on Mushrooms

<p>Speaker 0 (0s): Yeah, our life, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the TrueLife podcast. We are here with the author of No Absolutes, a fascinating individual, and a friend of mine. I'm not afraid to call him a friend of mine. He's a great person. And we're going to get into some more ideas about No Absolutes in history and anything else that comes our way. Benjamin. Is there any, you want to introduce yourself and if you want to start off with, </p><p>Speaker 1 (28s): Yeah, actually it looks like my livestream popped up and I'm getting a me in the background. So one second. </p><p>Speaker 0 (50s): Sorry </p><p>Speaker 1 (51s): About that. </p><p>Speaker 0 (52s): No apologies, man. No Absolutes. No apologies. It </p><p>Speaker 1 (55s): Happens right. There we go. </p><p>Speaker 0 (58s): So we again, go ahead. I'm sorry. </p><p>Speaker 1 (1m 1s): No, please go ahead. </p><p>Speaker 0 (1m 3s): So we began our momentary conversation before the podcast talking about symbols, talking about it's almost like another language, these obtuse, but familiar ideas that seem to be implanted in us by being bombarded on us. And I know a little bit about them, but I think it's a, and you may think it's a nice segue into history. Can you tell me a little bit about what you know about symbols or what do you think about some of those ideas? </p><p>Speaker 1 (1m 33s): Sure. Well, I mean, you know, symbology is all around us. It's, you know, our writing is simple, right? Which kind of goes back to, you know, words are important, how we think are important, you know, because that symbology is, it's very powerful. We're, we're attached to symbology inextricably, you know, you touched on it in a video that she made yesterday, I believe, but, you know, we have ancient symbols that have traversed the world, and yet we don't, we don't really have a good meaning of what they are. </p><p>And w you know, one of those symbols is that swastika, the swastika symbol, which it happens in the one you showed was the, the east Indian on