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Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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The Power of Attention Over Anger

I was thinking about you the other day when I was on a train and got talking to a man who, first of all, like, very nice, just chatty. And then he suddenly started spouting conspiracy theories about wellbeing, assimilation. There was no rationalizing what he was saying. He was claiming that Joe Biden's a robot. We're not even fighting on the same ground. You know, you're meeting this person who has a completely different perception of life in every level. That is why I said we are now on different grounds.

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