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Sweeny vs Bard #55 with Owen Cox: Logos, Mythos, and Pathos - The Three Brains

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Monasty - The Commonest Paradise

All dreams about communism are a kind of envy toward spiritual people. You cannot force an entire society to live in a communist world. It becomes stolid. But you can't practise communism in a close community, wyou agree on it. And that's exactly what you do in a monastery. That's why the monasty was always the commonest paradise. We didn't have to look further for the communest utopia than to look into monastery,. or to look into a burn - which is just a monastry, larger scale, shorter.

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