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The Original Challenge to Ideology Comes Out of Suspicion

I think our predominant mode is what I would maybe call a hermeneutics of suspicion. So that everything that, you know, the source is suspect, what is said is suspect and then because what? The root of that is the belief that the only knowledge that counts is immediate knowledge which is the paranoid position. Like Hamlet gets the message from his father and he's like,Yeah, yeah, okay, maybe, but I'm going to check it out for myself. That's the amazing contrast with Titus Andronicus, which is avenge me. Yeah,. Just going to do it, right? There's just no question.

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