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Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo

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The Evolution of Collective Ideology

In the world of critical theory, we talk about this idea of the logical truth. What then happens with collective, or rather conventional wisdom is it becomes a collective belief system,. Then everybody believes in it, and they believe in it as we say. It goes first from an unconventional wisdom to a conventional wisdom, and then from a conventional wisdom to a collectively accepted truth. But it happens because we human beings are creatures of collective society. The actual reason is very simple. That's how yours and my forefathers survived. In India, that's how they survived.

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