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25. The Ideology of Silicon Valley vs the Idea of Democracy – with Adrian Daub

Is This Democracy

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The Manliest Things in the History of Humankind

I think part of this is also a sort of 90s post-Cold War kind of story of at the height of so neoliberal hegemony which clearly the 90s was was right. There's this new generation of so center left political leaders in in the quote unquote West like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair and Gajshud and in Germany they fully bought into this general idea that the era of grand ideological struggle had given way to an era of just capitalist democracy reigning supreme. I think there's something very sort of Clinton America about this misperception of oh this is awesome they're coming to the White House  because these people love that kind of attention, he says.

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