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s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

Calmversations

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Changing the Locus of Where We Begin

Microluxious: Ideas are actually a product of a time and place. We're not thinking in the abstract realm of ideas we're thinking in the concrete real world in which we live. i think that changing the locus of where we begin allows us to center ourselves  in a way that allows us to properly understand the people around us as well. Microluxious: It's very natural for us post-enlightenment people to frame our ideas in exactly that way. If you were to trace the genesis of liberalism you steven hicks just as well it begins in england, he says.

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