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298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

The Symbolic World

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The War on Normal

"I think I'm coming to think that it's, it's time to go on the offensive against normophobia," he says. "To try and abolish all norms in favor of personal freedom is just a frankly wrong thing to do." 'We have to be able to speak from the place of the meme,' writes David Frum. "'The war on normal' has been there now for a very long time, right? It's been there since the, since the enlightenment at least.'"

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