
Ep. 35: Wilderness of Mirrors
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
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The United States and the Russians, the Organizing Principle
The united states represents, you know, thiculmination of this democratic spirit that can be traced all the way back to fifth cenury athens. In in russia, the organizing principle is the collective,. or the subordinates to this idea of likes or like, the spiritual collective, or a unit. So i think that in a way, the two are our admissible liquids, the united states and russians, thed and they really are. They present to each other a kind of exesential challenge. The americans confront the russians with this idea, why? Why would you conceive of a reality in which there is this subornes? And the
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