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Alan Watts - On Prickles and Goo
Jamie Anderson
A short animated excerpt of Alan Watts describing 'prickles' (rigorous, scientific types) and 'goo' (soft, spiritual types). He argues the real division is between prickly goo and gooey prickles.
HN uses it as shorthand for the divide between systematizing and humanistic outlooks, applied to arguments about science, society and language.
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