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Ideas That Matter Podcast by Vusi Thembekwayo

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The Importance of Accepting Ideology and Ideas

Scientists of that time, those who were, as is the Latin expression, illuminated the ill-ouminatee-ati, were those who brought to the world the idea that the world is round. But it wasn't easy. Those who first came up with the ideology and ideas were burnt at the stake. They were killed, first by society, and then it became a crime, and they were killed by the church in that day. So it went from being non-conventional wisdom, to as we accepted today, wisdom. The question you might ask is when did it become accepted wisdom? Well, what happened in that society is precisely what happens in all societies. There's a

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