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The Importance of Subversive Thinking
I would recommend people engage much more with a 19th century German philosopher Wilhelm Dilte D-I-L-T-H-E-Y. He was a very kind of traditional figure in his own day in late 19th century Berlin but his thinking is has a lot of those kinds of things I've been talking about today. Although he's Germany had this huge fear about abstract ideas being just simply super imposed on society he believed that and argued he had a philosophy that was based on the supposition that empirical concrete life is completely distinct. It's an irreducibleness to being human which is best expressed by food poetry, for example.