Feb 22 2016 15 mins 1
This episode takes a look at a Japanese proverb—"A nail that sticks out will be hammered down"—and how it sparks a few Lent-appropriate musings. Kierkegaard's pessimism about crowds in mentioned, Martin Heidegger's famous hammer analogy makes an entrance, and Rene Girard's brilliant notion of "mimetic desire" is also briefly discussed.
