Jamie Wheal With Dr. Tara Isabella Burton - Meaning-Making
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I think that there is something kind of sacred texty about Harry Potter in particular because it was such a formative cultural mythos. The idea that we can become who we want to be more often than not doesn't actually function in a particularly liberatory way, he says. I'm just calling up the also of my own reflection and so do many other people around the world as they look at this sort of postmodern liberation theology. And again, very big caveat. It's either like work hard and you can be who you want, or in practice ends up justifying wealth inequality by saying, well, if guess they didn't work hard enough and guess this millionaire is you know deserves to
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