s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)
Calmversations
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The Enlightenment Is a Blatant Gnostic Manifesto
There's more than one definition of reason, says Julian Zelizer. We have to rescue liberalism from the long train of Gnosticism that's been running through it since its beginning, he argues. There are valid points and there are invalid parts as well in post-liberalism according to Zelizer. The Enlightenment is a much more complicated and organic derivation that sprawled across over hundreds of years with lots of different kinds of thinkers," writes Zelizer.
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