> If you go back, like, 400 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective

Dunno, Shakespeare died 410 years ago and soliloquies on internal moral dilemmas and emotional states in Macbeth, Othello and Hamlet are a cornerstone of those plays.

Yeah. I'd invert his assumption. Any reading of history shows a lot of introspection. Read the writings of everyday soldiers in the Civil War. Read any writings from any of the Catholic thinkers of the last 2000 years. Read the Greeks and Romans. Marcus Aurelius was exceptional in his quality, but not in his direction. There are so many such examples throughout history that I think it would be much harder to examples of the lack of introspection.

If anything, I think the lack of introspection is a mostly modern phenomenon.

Buddhists really should get in on the introspective thing one of these years.

And homer and the entire corpus of greek plays.

The unexamined life is not worth living ~ 400 BC

I imagine Andreessen was kind of trolling?

Isn’t introspection a necessary ingredient to form morals?

The quote is so obviously idiotic that I'd be shocked if it weren't quoted out of context entirely for clickbait. That being said I am not going to find and listen to that podcast to find out.