18 | Spinoza: Necessity, Ethics, Joy
What's Left of Philosophy
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Is There a Representation of Inadequate Ideas in Politics?
i like the idea of things being true or not true, but i do think some ideas are actually false. And that's what makes politics so hard, because you're not dealing with just straightforwardly false things. It's actually usually that there's a problem that people are orienting themselves around and they're doing it in ways that are harmful. There usually is something true, but inadequate, that is being expressed, and then an ideology emerges around it. That's how you get these competing, seemingly competing facts that people built different ideologies around. But when we talk about ideology,. you're talking about, as, you sad, imaginations and affects, like, a manner of making sense
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