Podcast Poetry Part 1 #397-Lex Fridman interviews Greg Lukianoff

Epistemology needs freedom of speech.
Losing your job is losing a type of speech.
The First Amendment was meant to solve it all, all the potential reasons for why government could oppress people. But there is no catch-all.
Should we add an Amendment to the Constitution this year, and if so, what should it be? 
Another First Amendment called the Twenty-eighth Amendment?
Is repeating an Amendment like renewing vows?
Why shouldn’t a person’s political opinion be a protected class? 
Repressive tolerance, progressive tolerance, oppressive tolerance, regressive tolerance, pure tolerance...
How much tolerance is tolerant? 
Cancel culture cultures canceling.
What happens when there is nothing left to cancel?
1984 should be taught in all college curriculums.
What book should every American be made to read in high school? 
An atheist can have a strong interest in religion.
A believer can have a strong interest in atheism.
God is still busy.
The book of Job is worthwhile.
Ecclesiastes is timeless, in perpetuity.
The left likes the establishment clause; the right likes the free exercise clause.
The truth is in the balance. 
Balance speech, don’t cancel it.

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