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The Psychopolitics of Masturbation with Matthew Crawford

Outsider Theory

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The Woke Revolution and the Colonization of Ordinary Life by Technical Expertise

I think we have this state-like entity that expands its dominion on two fronts. So you have the Woke Revolution and you have the colonization of ordinary life by technical expertise. Both developments expand the reach of managerial authority, generate new bureaucratic constituencies; disqualify common sense as a guide to reality. I'm trying to get at this kind of clerical sort of interlocking clearacies that seem to have to be where sovereignty is located these days,.

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