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33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future

The Portal

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Introduction

Theory is that when powerful people use their advantage to engage in new, involuntary transfers of wealth, safety or freedom they are almost always forced to create an idealism as a cover for their tipening. To test this theory, each wave of idealism would have to be matched to a highly specific, effective confession ion for an injustice that pervaded the era in which it was found. This concept of idealism as disguising theft is, of course, an upsetting cognitive shift. It is therefore naturally initially difficult to come to see the waves of idealism that characterized each era that we have lived through, not as the best of our aspirations for a better world, but rather as the photographic

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