4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality
WHAT IS POLITICS?
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Political terms are a cesspool of meaningless verbs, says Andrew Keen. In the third episode we saw that most human societies over the past 12 thousand years or so have been organized political hierarchies. If you support the interests of the people on top of a given hierarchy, then you're on the right of that issue. And if you support the people at the bottom, then you’re on the left. But even if definitions of words can't be objectively right or wrong, they can be right or wrong in practical terms to convey our ideas.
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