
Renata Salecl - A Passion for Ignorance
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The Question of Ignorance Denial to Apathy
In the 50s, there were some ideas that democracy in a way is a system which allows you to retreat into your private life and so on So this political scientists who were praising apathy, of course, were quickly criticized. The upper classes are not apathetic at all to keep their power Right, I think that makes a lot of sense And it shows that these things,. this question of ignorance in politics, this question of apathy is, it's been around since before the Civil War In the 1840s, there was a party in the United States called the No Nothing Party They pushed chauvinistic ideals but they weren't around for very long.
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