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267 - Luke Burgis - Revenge of the Scapegoat

The Symbolic World

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Hiroshima Was a Human Sacrifice

Hiroshima was a human sacrifice in the sense that Americans said clearly, we have to kill these innocent people in order to stop the war. And if we do that, then we'll get a blessing from heaven, like we will end the war because they weren't killing soldiers. "I think it for sure it created, I think, the United States and like the United States is born in Hiroshima in some ways," he says.

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