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Robin Ince Meets Slavoj Žižek - The World In 2025

Apr 29, 2025
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Quantum Physics Meets Politics

  • Quantum physics shows that events happen contingently but retroactively create their own necessity.
  • Trump's political trajectory illustrates this Hegelian concept of repetition turning contingency into necessity.
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Left Parties Fear Progress

  • Modern left parties like Labour and the Democrats seem terrified of anything truly progressive.
  • The Labour Party has become a moderate right party led mostly by white men, with fringe rightists including diverse groups.
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Embrace Community, Not Perversion

  • Trump and Bernie Sanders both appeal but in radically different ways; Trump embodies postmodern historicist relativism through constant lying.
  • The left should embrace community, solidarity, and moral majority to respond effectively today.
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