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Unlocked: Myth of the Month 8: "The West"

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The Great Witch Hunt and the Fear of Cultural Bolshevism

People naturally have a strong self awareness about their bodily integrity. Is their body being somehow invaded, as it being poisoned from out idit? And a lot of the same anxieties about foreign impurities breaking down western civilization are echoed in post modernist thinking. There's still this sort of fear of cultural bolshevism, or cultural marxism, as it's now called, right? Undermining the west, sort of like an invisible infection, weakening the body. You know, for one reason or another, germany has really been the sort of crucible, ok?

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