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The Dig: Dead Generations w/ Matt Christman

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The Most Important Missed Opportunity in American History?

People want their culture to be political because they imagine if everybody watches this and gets the same idea from it i do, then that will cause some sort of pa shift towards a better world. But voting can never be that. Voting puts people in office who outside of collective misery and the expression of collective misery. You're not voting to help anybody, including yourself. I mean, just look at the carceral state and mass incarceration. That's culture war, but deeply materialized, right? Exactly. Andthe the figures who take the commanding heights of history are able, if they are able, to influence history, it is by recognizing what is happening,. Not by trying to impose on it

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