That was a great joke by Sapolsky but not one of the Rogan followers noticed it enough to comment about it.
First of all Thomas Mann did not have t.b. when he wrote the book, but that is what Sapolsky implies with his joke.
I'll check just to make sure!
Course of Illness | Lapham's Quarterly
Inspiration leaves Mann's mountain | World news | The Guardian
Mann visited Davos in May 1912. His wife Katja had fallen ill with acute bronchitis and had been advised to spend six months in the mountains.
Like Castorp, Mann discovered a spot on his lung - but unlike his hero, he left Davos after just three weeks.So maybe Mann did have a "touch" of T.B.?
Anyway I read the novel as my senior year of high school, English thesis paper. I remember enjoying the book immensely but on the last page I had a tear rolling down my cheek. Was I finally just so glad to finish that huge tome or was I sad it was ending? I'll never be sure. haha.
My argument of my senior year high school English paper was that we need to confront death to figure out the truth of life. I never saved the paper I guess.
And so I studied the book of John intensely in high school bible class - at my Christian high school that just recently blew up!
By the way my high school sports team had been called the "Indians" and then we had a Native indigenous activist from A.I.M speak to our whole school. We promptly changed the team name to the Cardinals. That was my first direct experience of an "activist"!
And so "Minnehaha" itself is a made up name inspired by the indigenous name for running water - Minne - with the "haha" added by a deluded European colonialist famous poet - Longfellow.
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