
The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
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Is There a Platonism in Public Health?
Rey: Most olits are smart enough to understand the realities that we're talking about, but they kind of think it through the lens of a kind of like platonic noble lie framework. He says elites have these mental models as well, and they're kind of doing their best with what they've been given. Rey: On one hand, there's been a massive expansion in the scope of the powers of this kind of expert class. But on the other hand, i'm not sure that its redounded to the detriment of their sort of er authoritativeness.
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