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94 Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Ghosts of the Past

The world we inhabit is mostly being created by dead people. The whole of history that we're thrown in, to use the hydigerian term, all comes from these ghosts of the past who keep returning. We also sometimes look back at revolutioni war and say just before the russian revolution there was pure democracy and freedom. There's a sustaining ghost, as it were, of democracy. And if you think tha, this phrase, n, this idea has become more and more powerfulm,. since, since deride, and in the last few years.

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