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Critique of Dialectical Reason

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Isn't It Hard to Be a Legislator?

Todd: I just want to say one last thing about this there was this poet um Denise levertoff and she would never pay taxes because she's such a pacifist. Todd: It shows that Shelley was wrong that poets aren't really the unacknowledged legislators of the world like thank god poets aren't the legislator of the world. The solution partakes in the mechanism that created the problem in the first place, he says. "You have to fight worse to stop fascism yeah well  if being wrong's a crime i'm serving forever" 'I think you get asked to solve problems in ways that don’t perpetuate how we got here' - Sardinia.

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