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177. Angus Fletcher — 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

The Michael Shermer Show

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Why Is C Crime on the Rise or the Decline of Whatever?

Academics tend to write about big rucasism. That is, you know, why is c crime on the rise or the decline of whatever? It's almost always a very specific problem, like thiex s. The same methods that in the middle ages were used to interpret the bible produced what they produced, absolutism. And it's not surprising that the methods applied to literary texts are once again replicating moralism and absolutism and judgment. You don't change the world by being holier than thou and by telling people that they're wrong and that they don't know what's going on. We should have a medical view of life, we

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