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Matters of Life and Death
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The Rise of the Charismatic Individual
The rise of the charismatic individual is also a kind of rise of the influencer people are longing to follow. There's a messianic bent within us all we do want to have a king over us to lead us and in once emile eight god sort of rolls his eyes and goes oh god okay i'll give you salt, he says. The guru is being led by us stroke the algorithm according to Russell Brand who has like chased after six million awakening souls. We're now at the whims of influences but it's not just the influences it's it's the algorithms and nobody even understands these algorithms so we're we're heading in some uh some quite alarming directions i think some
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