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Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two)

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Political Paranoia Is More Motivated by Skepticism Than by Dylan's Criteria

People are distrustful of institutions and stuff. It all sort of supports that, like I said, is closer to the center of the web. And so they find it easier to discard other criteria because those connect so well. They develop a kind of what psycho analysts would call this very split view of human beings. You can have these diabolical Dr. Evil type characters out there who are motivated by nothing but putting a big thing over on the world. The kind of othering, right? Yeah. So yeah, it is a kind of, yeah, and it's the basis for political paranoia. In fact, paranoia is quite, and at political levels, quite common. And we

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