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57 The Political Turn (The Great Feast)

The Imperfect Buddha Podcast

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The Complexity of Culture

The political is always personal there is little room for difference or rather there is only hyper difference an tendency towards justification and intolerance emerges honor wars return. John gray goes on to reiterate in his text our first principle that of complexity noting how simplistic readings of complex phenomena allows the modern work left to pontificate from on high last preaching incredibly simplistic readings of an incredibly complex world all the while dismissing dissent from the new orthodoxy it is attempting to establish. If most people do not like your most vocal and extreme forms they're probably not going to vote for you I think it's fair to describe these more extreme forms as racist fascist misogynist etc.

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