You said a year ago that if trump wins, it could be good because it will revitalize the left. Did you really mean it? The democratic conservatives are in the ascendancy and where the democrats have gone hard left, is identity politics. So why has it been good? De wealcan av ears of trump. My ears o trump. We don't give time to god. But let me be specific. Democrats will go identity politics already. Hilary tried this against donald strump, yes, and i was sorry. Sor y are against against burney sanders. Sr, that's why i admire alexandria ocasio cortes who said something very
This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Communist, why he calls The Handmaid’s Tale “nostalgia for the present,” what he likes about Greta Thunberg, what Marx got right about the commodification of beliefs, his concerns about ecology and surveillance in communist states like China today, the reasons academia should maintain its ‘useless character,’ his beginnings as a Heideggerian, why he is distrustful of liberal optimism, the “Fukuyama dilemma” we face, the importance of “empty manners,” and more.
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