Hello Worthy Lovers, welcome back to Valet Amandum Podcast with your host Yega. In today's episode, Bahres returns to talk about controversial views and how conversations allow for people to talk about them. We also talk about Skin in The Game and First Principle Reasoning. I hope you guys enjoy this episode!

Timestamp: (01:30) Risk in making controversial ideas. (02:15) Virtue is risk-taking. (04:28) What Bahres tries to do with his song. (11:50) Be careful about discussing ideal. (13:35) The problem with certain kinds of intellectuals. (21:29) The pursuit of trying to solve the problem with consciousness. (26:13) Perfecting the ways to find the truth, not the truth itself. (27:15) The problem lies in the interpretation. (29:05) We might never find the answer, but we can always try. (30:15) Talking about the stories about the house of wisdom. (32:50) First Principle Reasoning in Islam. (34:53) Write a book when you disagree with someone. (37:00) The fact that we're afraid to find the Truth in other ways. (40:54) Stories about perfection and progress. (44:32) The idea of perfection is an imperfect one. (49:12) Discussing religion critically counts as taboo. (50:07) Finding intellectuals in Indonesia. (Returning to the idea in our first podcast). (52:41) Researching Dukun in Indonesia. (56:31) The best part of Bahres' last song. (59:41) An explanation of satire. (01:00:21) An explanation of meta-satire. (01:02:40) Playing the game or talking about it. (01:05:15) Being critical of your own views. (01:07:11) The necessity of art. (01:08:25) Extending the notion of yourself. (01:09:15) The reason I don't like ideologues. (01:11:32) Two outcomes when you expose your ideas. (01:12:45) Change is painful. (01:17:58) Opening your eyes to places that you don't want to visit. (01:19:21) Move then adjust your goals. (01:22:30) Skin in The Game balances First Principle Reasoning. (01:25:35) Being called out by Nassim Taleb's book. (01:33:11) Quote by Anton Ego from Ratatouille. (01:38:00) How do we define a great artist? (01:38:00) Express? Impress? Both? (01:40:30) Art that works. (01:42:15) The necessary capabilities in expressing and impressing. (01:44:48) The 3rd argument about art. (01:47:23) Skillset about expressing can impress someone. (01:50:08) The market aspect of art. (01:53:40) The notion of high culture and low culture. (01:56:13) The 4th argument about art. (02:02:42) Experts need skin in the game.