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298 - Mary Harrington - Conspiracies and the Return of Myth

The Symbolic World

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The Relationship Between Meaning Making and Money

The last British politician that got sampled for a rave track was Boris Johnson, which figures really. Most of the stuff that I write in that sense is because eminently forgettable, which I remind myself of every possible opportunity. A coinage, a two or three word meme coinage can unpack into four or 5,000 words or sometimes 50. Just depending on how hard you're trying to explain it to normal people who aren't far too online for their own good. But I wanted to add a materialist layer to that as well, being the crypto-Marxist that I am, which is about the relationship between meaning making and money," he said.

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