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The Dialectical Faith of Leftism | James Lindsay

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The Logos as Reality

The gospel of John begins with an assertion of the logos as reality. The world as it is has an order Christians Jews other religion people would say that that order is divinely ordained and created total naturalists might say well we don't necessarily know why there's order but finethere's certainly an order to reality. If you don't think reality is actually sovereign but is rather a prison or a limitation upon you then you try to transform reality to accord to you and your wishes that transformation is fundamental to leftism. But that requires economic socialism and requires breaking free the true social nature of man so that it can function.

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