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Part One: The Jordan Peterson Episode

Behind the Bastards

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Is That Why We'd Like to Change the World?

Orwell was not critiquing socialism itself as much as he was criticizing the kind of intellectual, lefty, academic politico types who spend all their time arguing over theory and never actually do anything. It's these systems that are incredibly corrupt and focked up and unjust that need to be changed. And then, like, people can actually live their lives and be decent without these horrible systems crushing them. That's how i would goi likethat o it is ia es dos w a ising yo, yes. Orl was a committed socialist his entire life, and he was profoundly working class. There's a good collection of his essays called a all art is propaganda.

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