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Freddie Deboer: The Nihilism of the Left and the Optimism that Must Replace It
From the New World
The Elephant in the Brain
A lot of the demagoguery that's being played out now is not something that would be foreign to Socrates, right? We kind of did agree in the kind of post Enlightenment time to assume great degrees of rationality and self-interest. If it had not been for that, then the public really wouldn't have kind of... There would be no line from the public to any kind of policy change without basically the decisions and ideas of that kind of specialized elite.
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