The Curse of Being Smart
Being Smart is a Curse, and our greatest writers have been warning us about it for centuries. In this video I explore three great books that describe different aspects of this problem: the curse of human intelligence. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Oedipus & the Illusion of Control 4:31: The Meaning of The Oedipus Story 6:06: Hamlet: Intelligence & Paralysis 8:01: Overthinking in Hamlet 9:27: Misanthropy in Crime and Punishment 11:32: Breaking the Curse of Being Smart Texts pictured in this video: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, in The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd Edition, 2016. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, Oxford UP, 2017.
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