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Ece Temelkuran on the politics of emotion

How We Live Now with Katherine May

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The Importance of Faith in Politics

I proposed the concept of faith against hope in together. Hope is a very fragile word for these times, and it's inconsequential because it doesn't matter if you're hopeless or hopeful. And also hope has become a commodity for the system to sustain itself. I think as a human skill, faith should be taken seriously by politics. Although I am aware that it's a dangerous word, we shouldn't underestimate people's capacity to believe in something... If we believe, we can make it happen.

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