445 What Would Cervantes Do? (with David Castillo and William Egginton)
The History of Literature
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Navigating a Media Saturated World
Thealentralide is sort of a dating of machiavelli's philosophy, a political philosophy for the courtly elits of the seventeenth century. The book that bill referred to, or the translation that bill was referring to, came under the title, they arr work the art of worldly wisdom. You can navigate in a way to better your own circumstances to accumulate more power. And not just yourself, but those of oppressed classes who find hat again and again, theyare repeating certain actions precisely because they think they're doing something for themselves, but in fact, are benefiting intrenched interests.
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