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Behind the News: Afghanistan Update w/ Matthieu Aikins

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Biological Organismic Life Is the Lifeblood of the Nation

The way we treat the economy is this thing that doesn't serve us We're meant to serve it and it sort of becomes our commander. I was looking at moments much earlier in history of science where the economy as a circulatory system Gets constructed as a metaphoric and linguistic association. And so again, if we're thinking of ourselves as circulating through a larger whole Than that starts to naturalize and organ-assize These systems in a way that really gives them a lot of potency and primacy in the world.

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