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#92 Tamim Ansary: Understanding The US Exit from Afghanistan from an Islamic Worldview

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The Progress Narrative

Ame: I like the idea of the progress verss kind of reformation narratives. And i think super correct in saying that capitalism as a similar kind of ideology. It has this progress in narrative, or this development narrative which still wants to fuel itself. In order to do that, it needs to, what it sees is make progress. The first time i went back to afghanistan after 38 years, and remembered that it was so quiet there, and it was so private. Everything that was worth anything was happening in the private world. But nobody ever had that choice. What they did have been able to choose were cars. Do you want a car? Sure. I want

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