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Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things

Philosophize This!

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Normalize Power of Society

The power of normalization is that it allows people to be themselves in accordance with the way they say they should be. In other words, not only are people willing to not do drugs, not steal, not punch their neighbor in the face and countless other things, but they're actually excited about filling their role as a normal person within society. So if you consider all the stuff we talked about on the episode so far, you can start to see the problems that you run into as a scientist from the perspective of foucot. Because if you're some one born into this world, you are born into an episteme. You already have a set of unconscious background assumptions that youare making that

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