Ep. 55: Don't Eat the Bugs
Young Heretics
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What Burke Says Next Is, Now All Is to Be Changed
I've argued for republics before, but what i have never argued for is stripping politics and communal life of its ritual. Why do you think we built washington d c? The way we did? Why all those fluted columns? Why all these marble monuments,. These alabaster decorations? Why any of that? Because we knew what the great monarchies learned from the great Monarchies of europe especially from england - that life is not mere mathematics. Life is spirituality too, and nobility... If you take that away, you take away everything that ennobles human life. And so that's what burke says next, and this is really chilling. He says, now
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