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s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

Calmversations

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The Problem of Ideology

Carl: The Gnostic project got moved into politics sociology and economics very deliberately. I think that we see this rising within the Enlightenment is not specifically because of something to do with the Enlightenment although perhaps I'm open to the contention to the hypothesis. He says there was no real distinction between mystics and scientists and philosophers and even theologians sort of throughout Europe in the late Middle Ages early modern period it just wasn't Francis Bacon which one was he all of them so what are you going to do? Carl: Judith Butler's first chapter basically lays out literally a claim that everybody who's a Marxist ever misunderstood Marx about ideology. We're at the front forefront of this movement that's definitely not a

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