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Talking Politics: HISTORY OF IDEAS

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The Story of the Twenty-First Century

Hobbs tried to build a machine that could mimic human action. He may have been wrong, says David Walliams. The state is meant at some level to mimic, not mechanical action, but human action. It's the machine we built to take our side against mindless, heartless, robotic forms of action and politics.

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