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Pill Pod 113 - Slavoj Zizek vs Wokeness

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

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Are You a Leftist, or a Rightist?

A lot of people who kind of don't really agree with some of these cultural, I don't know, or they at least have questions about it, where they'll be like, I'd rather just say nothing than argue about it because ultimately I don't really care. So the effect of that is something that behavioral economists would call belief falsification. And yeah, that still functions even if the actual people who have the crazy beliefs are a super small minority. If they're loud enough, it's gonna have that effect. Yeah. The real problem is just that when you impose penalties or there could be potential penalties, where you'll have kind of a mob of behavioral reaction to it.

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