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Unregistered 231: Curtis Yarvin and Ben Burgis Live From Chicago

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The Importance of Irrationality in Politics

Tori: Do you think irrationality is a result of disinterest in reality or does it just come from people not wanting to know what's true. I'm unpersuaded by this as an anti-as an argument against democracy even beyond what I would see as the sort of in principle right that people have to govern their own their own lives and collective destinies, says Ben Affleck. He thinks we're kind of on the verge of a global thermonuclear exchange because of extreme elite irrationality.

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