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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay

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Alpha Have: A Dialectical Lifting Up Process

Hegel fell in love with the idea of turning savages into people made to live in cities under this Trinitarian dialectical lifting up process called alpha haben. Hegel was enchanted by this and he built out as you see with the father son holy spirit a hermetic theology based off of this idea but it's also Gnostic even though they're not compatible what would you do if you were a dialectical magician an alchemist and you had two opposing ideas that are kind of similar and you wanted to turn them into one thing? That's exactly what Hegel did. Theory and practical ideas unify at which point the absolute idea realizes itself, gives rise to perfect society

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