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The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford

Outsider Theory

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Woody Allen Sleeper

He was regarded as a grifter by the federal government because they prosecuted him for selling this kind of quack medicine. His trajectory in a way anticipates what we associate with the shift from the 60s to the 70s, right? There's this turn from kind of political activism to this kind of inwardness and self help and self improvement. So he sort of, I think he, he really shifts from this sort of radical political project to these kind of self improvement and, and you know, human potential project earlier than any other culture does.

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