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142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Dostoevsky's Utopie

Dostoevsky analysed the propositions of totalitarianism. He said, look, human beings do not want utopia. We're too insane for that. All you do is go crazy, just soat you wouldn't have to be bored by all that perfection. You destroy it so that the irrational element that's inside of ou, s this dionysian element, could leap out and live. That was written in the laighteen eighteen, late eighteen hundred as well....

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