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What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Golem of Liberal Philosophy

In a liberal society, you're going to have a giant mishmash of philosophies and groups and movements with each one very passionate. And they're going to vehemently disagree with each other and great. That's good. I have no objection to someone who used the term social justice fundamentalism as opposed to wokeness because wokeness is low to a baggage. But yeah, my problem with it is its tactics. So step one is trying to kind of use coercion instead of persuasion to control what's being said publicly. If I can't persuade people, then maybe either I'm wrong or I need to be better at persuasion, right? And that's just how it goes. What

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