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26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley Bohrer

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There Something We Can't Wait For?

It is so easy to be pulled into operating inside a political sphere that makes it seem as though institutionalization on, you know, on accepted terms. And i think we it's helpful to be critical and sceptical of that. We can't wait for someone to come save us like that. Shit's not going to magically happen. As much as we do harm and violence and totally fucked up things to each other, the world can be otherwise because we are capable of other things. I mean it obviously collectively and structurally. But also in deep, intense, intellectual, psychological, emotional, national ways by the many forms of messed-upness of this world. It doesn't have to

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