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The Gnostic Parasite | James Lindsay

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The Transformation of Man

Marx is saying that Plato was right about the structure of society. The philosopher kings should rule over everything, he says. Those with gnosis or nose are rational socialists who understand that man's nature is a species being. Those without gnosis are irrational and reduced to something like animals. They feel their human nature when they're doing animal things like eating and drinking and procreating. That causes them to give in to those desires mentioned in the Corpus Hermeticum.

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