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Cultural origins of Russian disinformation | Ep. 145

Explaining Ukraine

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What Is Metaphysics?

There is also a term of metaphysics invented by a french writer, alfred jary. He wrote certical plays about ubu the king and then another play about ubu enchained. Maybe could easily find some interstant paralous with what's going on now, politically and military, with russia. The russian political and cultural tradition was denying the very importance of the physical world. Let's just look in the nineteenth century: Slavenfile sapenik, the slavofis and the westernizers,. Even the westernizers were, in a sense, metaphysics, metaphysical. They were believing in some apocalyptic idea of the world revolution. Weee from her

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