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Hello, everyone.
Very nice to be here.
So there's a question we ask each other all the time that is arguably both dumb and dangerous.
That question is.
Sounds very innocent.
What do you want?
What do you want?
Seems harmless enough, but it's an ambiguous question.
The problem is that word you.
We're not simple beings.
It turns out,
Walt Whitman said in a phrase that has sparked a million Internet memes, I contain multitudes.
Rumi said, you're not a drop in the ocean.
You are an ocean in a drop.
We're a whirring, whirling mix of thoughts, emotions, instincts, and identities.
And we're a social species.
We are massively influenced by each other, the context of when and how we're asked that question.
So, for example,
if I asked you right now whether after the excellent dinner you perhaps recently consumed,