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#1099 Robert Breedlove On Money, Power, War & Bitcoin

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What Is the Biggest Ramification of Political Power?

To maximize our physical power footprint in the world, to harness more energy and channel it across time, we need these symbolic structures. We're the animal that plays imaginary, acting in concert enables us to move a lot more matter than we could in isolation. And so I want to define political power as something born from the faith humans have in that symbolic structure and the roles that individuals play inside of it. It's not a real physical power that the president has over 330 million apes in the United States. It's all premised on this symbolic structure, which has a political dimension to it as a result of us just being human.

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