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s05e48 | The Liberal Parasite – with James Lindsay and Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad)

Calmversations

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I'll Let Carl Talk and Let You Guys Talk in Second

i think what's made the west so successful but we've had this weird undercurrent of mysticism. Hegel just imported that architecture from Plato which is to build a technocracy. He actually becomes the guy who outlines the plan that marx picks up and saysactually yeah but flip it over so that we get to be on top as the grubs" i'm not saying everybody's doing  what carl's doing, i'm just saying how do you define liberalism and enlightenment for me? We have to excavate deep because when Plato names cientia that's what he's actually talking about.

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