J. D. Vance: “Their way of thinking about the world is much more narrow…”

“Yeah. Iq. These are high achieving. These are people who are people of the mind. They're not superstitious, religious people like the ones that I discarded. And yet Their way of thinking about the world is much more narrow and constrained for this very reason, because their opinions are so based on just what other people believe. that it becomes derivative of the social set in which they run in. And this leads me to another Catholic philosopher where, you know, Rene Girard talks about this idea that human beings are, look, we're naturally social.” (08:13–08:22)

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