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there is currently a panic in Europe as
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the European politicians find themselves
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to be surrounded by foreign powers which
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fundamentally do not agree with them on
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how the world ought to be governed we
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have been treated to headlines from
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Elite Publications such as foreign
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policy magazine or the financial times
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informing us that the US is now the
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enemy of the West and yes America is
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Europe's enemy now these are headlines I
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never thought I would see in my lifetime
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and it's become apparent to me that the
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dividing line between who is a friend
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and who is an enemy is no longer being
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drawn on the traditional demarcations of
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the post World War II liberal order in
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fact Ursula Von Delan and the EU sees
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the rules-based order as being under
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siege by a kind of politics that they
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can only describe as far right because
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they do not understand it it is in fact
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so far out of the scope of their
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comprehension and what they would
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consider to be acceptable that it
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thrusts them into a realm of such
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profound
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uncertainty that this becomes something
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akin to a catastrophe to them even
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though materially not much has changed
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and indeed things may well get better in
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ideology and Utopia Hungarian
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sociologist KL Manheim addresses the
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question of whether there can be a
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science of politics in his evaluation
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ation he describes how the drive of the
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Bourgeois liberals to create a science
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of politics would bring into being the
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rules-based order of the European Union
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science requires its answers to be
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necessary and predictable if I added
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this chemical to that chemical I will
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always see a certain kind of chemical
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reaction if I heat this metal to this
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temperature then I will always be able
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to bend it with such and such amount of
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force and so on this requires a
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mechanical set of materials to work upon
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and whilst it may accurately describe
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our ability to manipulate the natural
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world it does not fully Encompass our
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ability to deal with our fellow man
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though he was writing in 1929 and the
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European Union wouldn't properly begin
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to be assembled until
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1948 the general concept of United
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Europe was present in the beginning of
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the 20th century and Europe's bour
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intellectuals had been diligently
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working towards it Manheim accurately
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presaged how the European Union would
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end up functioning because of the
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ideology and worldview of the bouro
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liberal and how that informed the
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necessary methods that they would have
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to use to accomplish their goal Manheim
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noted that their desire was to
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rationalize European politics that is to
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create logical systems which would
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ensure predictable results to create
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certainty in the face of
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uncertainty as he put it every social
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process may be divided into a rational
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sphere consisting of settled and
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routinized procedures in dealing with
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situations that recur in an orderly
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fashion and the irrational by which it
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is surrounded we are therefore
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distinguishing between the rationalized
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structure of society and the irrational
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Matrix the chief characteristic of
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modern culture is the tendency to
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include as much as possible in the realm
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of the rational and bring it under
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administrative control and on the other
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hand to reduce the irrational element to
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the vanishing point this ordering of the
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world is present all around us now and
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it has its virtues some things ought to
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be bureaucratized to ensure that they
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function well and do what they are
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supposed to Manheim gives us the example
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of travel as a realm in which
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bureaucratization is useful as he says
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the traveler of 150 years ago was
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exposed to a thousand accidents today
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everything proceeds according to
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schedule fair is exactly calculated and
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a whole series of administrative
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measures have made travel into a
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rationally controlled Enterprise and
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this is useful you want to know when
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you're going to get to your destination
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and how much it's going to cost you and
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this also allows Manheim to
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differentiate between the concepts of
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behavior and conduct as he says the
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perception of the distinction between
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the rationalized scheme and the
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irrational setting in which it operates
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provides the possibility for a
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definition of the concept conduct
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conduct conduct in the sense which we
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use it does not begin until we reach the
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area where rationalization has not yet
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penetrated where we are forced to make
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decisions in situations which have as
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yet not been subjected to regulation
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what Manheim means with his reference to
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conduct is the development of a person's
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character it is only outside of the
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pre-ordained system of rules in which
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people's conduct must be self-regulated
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in such a way in which their character
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develops in all other ways the system
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has decreed for them externally how they
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ought to behave in any given situation
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and so this decision-making power has
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been taken out of their hands it is only
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where the rationalized system stops that
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character can begin to form the desire
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to rationalize all of society all human
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interaction to create a set of rules
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which would govern each person's
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Behavior what we would otherwise call a
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social contract is the primary desire of
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the Bourgeois Li Li Al and the European
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Union is the most explicit form of that
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project there is a reason that Europe is
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creaking under the weight of a million
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unnecessary regulations put upon it by a
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political body whose entire mandate is
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based on the increasing regulation of
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every aspect of life this is also why
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the bureaucracies that make up the
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European Union are so fundamentally
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characterless they are lifeless dull
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uninspiring devoid of Personality nobody
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can love the bureaucracy even if they
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are totally dependent upon it and have
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been shaped and molded by it for their
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entire lives their only attachment to it
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is out of fear of losing the personal
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security and material benefits that it
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provides Ursula V Delan is very explicit
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about what she calls this rules-based
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International order and how this is
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something that ought to Encompass all of
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Mankind through through the United
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Nations and as she explained in a speech
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in
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2022 Russia is betraying that rational
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agreement this is an attack against the
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entire un
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Charter Putin has even asked in his
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speech on annexation and I quote who did
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ever agree on a rules-based global order
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end of quote well the Russians did
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certainly they did did it when they
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signed the UN chter
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just like all other nations of the world
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and when they negotiated the hinki Final
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Act the rules-based global order belongs
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to the world it is the best antidote
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against Perpetual instability in all
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continents and all nations in the world
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see this to have a seamless and
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integrated political system means that
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every challenge becomes a crisis which
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threatens to undo the entire project if
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something were to go wrong then
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everything that relied upon that faulty
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Link in the chain breaks as well there
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is no robustness in such a system
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because its inorganic nature renders it
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as something that has to be governed by
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Specialists and technicians and cannot
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be dealt with on the ground level by the
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mass of unspecialized laymen this makes
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it rigid and oppressively stable and
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completely inflexible in his Infamous
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book The end of history in the last man
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political theorist Francis fukiyama
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describes how he expected these
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rationalized liberal democracies to be
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the final form of government as he felt
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they satisfied all of the needs
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expressed by Plato in his theory of the
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tripartite Soul Plato believed that the
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human soul was separated into three
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parts the epithetic the appetite which
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deals with our bodily desires the
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logistic on our reason which deals with
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rational thought and the Tho
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the spirit which deals with conflict in
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the social realm and encompasses our
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concepts of Honor Challenge and victory
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fukiyama anglicized this as thymos which
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I will also use just because it's easy
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to say it's obvious to see why our
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reason would prefer a rationalized
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system the rational system is after all
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the product of our reason it has been
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logically constructed by our reason and
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the conclusions of it can be deduced
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from its premises it is the very nature
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of reason to create such things and
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moreover as Hume observed reason is
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forever the slave of the passions and so
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the rationalized system is put into
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place to serve the appetites of people
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for food shelter protection pleasure Etc
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these two things meld together naturally
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to create a predictable state of comfort
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and safety liberal democracy and the
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rules-based international order as
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exemplified by the European Union the UN
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the world economic Forum ET ET is viewed
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by fukiyama to bring about what he terms
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the end of History this is not an end of
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events as such but an end of great power
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politics in which states would Clash on
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the world stage and Wars are fought over
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irrational causes it is a world in which
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the entire life of man is rationalized
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and individualized so that he is just
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himself alone and every system in the
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world recognizes him in this way however
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fukiyama never satisfactorily dealt with
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the issue of thymos he assumed that the
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desire for recognition status honor
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respect and greatness could all be
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achieved within the rules-based system
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of a liberal democracy but it's becoming
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apparent that this is simply not the
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case often a person's status is not just
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tied to a numerical evaluation of their
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individual person but instead their
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sentimental position in a cohesive
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tribal group group you have to choose
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now between Davos or
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Westminster Davos why because
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Westminster is too constrained West's
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just a tribal shouting place it's also
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become clear the decis portion of the
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population views the rules-based
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bureaucratic order as being itself a
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form of Oppression and seek to get out
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from under its
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Dominion these people just aren't
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Satisfied by liberal democracy in the
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way that fukiyama expected them to be
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and so we must look elsewhere for
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explanations Scottish historian and
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philosopher Thomas carile proposed what
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has become known as the great man of
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History theory in his 1841 book on
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Heroes hero worship and the heroic in
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history though much derided by liberal
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historians carile was probably on to
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something here as he famously viewed
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history as the biography of Great Men
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whose unusual virtues and strong
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characters
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allowed them to rise to positions of
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power which they then could use to
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reshape the world according to their
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abilities car's theory is a non-material
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non-rational view of how man operates in
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the world and is fundamentally rooted in
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the
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thotics respect recognition dignity
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power and magesty and we have been
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witnessing the conflict between
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rationalistic and photic politics for
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years now where the rules-based order
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sought to bring about the end of history
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and the rationalization of Politics the
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irrational Great Men of carlile's theory
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appear to be rising up and conquering to
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exercise their photic Wills on the world
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stage and settle the problems that we
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have in the way they see fit the term
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far right is a description for this kind
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of photic politics which cares about the
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dignity and integrity of peoples and
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groups which considers itself to feel a
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certain way and hold sentimental
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attitudes to the things that it has it
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is the politics of attachments versus
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the politics of category that we are
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witnessing playing out before us and
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this is why our bouro Elite cannot
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properly explain what the farri are who
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they are meant to reflect what their
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political ideals are they don't have a
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Doctrine they don't have a Manifesto
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they don't organize based on ideology
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because they aren't an ideology they are
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in fact the opposite of an ideology they
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are not rational they are sentimental
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they are the soul of the people looking
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for a champion to lead them to Victory
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Trump Elon farage Shinzo B bolsonaro mle
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Orban even Putin and Kim Jong-un all
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represent the photic form of politics
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rooted in Pride dignity virtue respect
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and sentimentality they are all figures
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whose public presence is based around
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their characters rather than their
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obedience to rules that is not to say
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that they are all on the same side that
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is to say that they all come from the
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same Paradigm they are not allies but
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they do speak a political language which
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each other understands Obama Biden
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Trudeau Blair stama Von Delan V hofstad
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the entire us bureaucracy the entire EU
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apparatus the UN the world economic
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forum and much more all represent the
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politics of the logison the desire to
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have reason impose itself on the organic
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world of human interaction and regulate
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every irrational element to the
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vanishing point their form of politics
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does create necessary allies which is
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why starm and the EU are currently
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running around as if their world is
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collapsing around them because in some
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ways it is is this is a map of NATO this
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is also a map of the rationalized
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political system which seeks to impose a
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characterless social contract on the
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whole of
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mankind Russia marked in red represents
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the last major
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thotics add China and Iran to the axis
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of
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thotics in the face of trump negotiating
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above their heads with Putin of Ukraine
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the rational bureaucrats rushed to the
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UN to get a resolution on it and when
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Trump's United States decided to vote
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against them in this resolution suddenly
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their map changes instead of the United
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States being a bureaucratic country in
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the end of History under trump it has
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flipped to being a
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thotics to put itself rather than the
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rules-based order first Trump is not
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playing by their rules he's playing by
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his own which is why when he go over the
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heads of the EU to speak to Putin manto
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man about a settlement in Ukraine the
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entire political class of Europe begins
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to completely freak out even though the
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end result may actually be peace in
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Europe and an end to the Bloodshed
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because if Trump is successful in
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Ukraine then what it signals is that the
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rules-based order may actually not be
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the best way of organizing the world
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what it suggests in fact is that the
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rules-based
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is actually something artificial which
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has been imposed upon us against our
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better interests it might even reveal
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the rules based order to be the vanity
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project of very boring characterless
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people who have no right being in charge
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of anything and have shown no ability to
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govern well and for the best interests
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of their own people they realize that it
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might in fact Herald the end of the
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entire International liberal project
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they are well aware of this
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which is why when JD Vance goes to
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Europe and explains to them that they
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ought to actually care about freedom in
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the thotics in the sense of a person's
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dignity and right to express themselves
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how they see fit and that being
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respected by the powers that be it
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causes eurocrats to literally cry on
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stage because they can feel that the end
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of their bureaucratic order is drawing
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closer this conference started as a
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Atlantic conference after the speech of
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Vice President Vance on Friday we have
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to fear that our common value base is
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not that common
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anymore I'm very grateful to all those
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European politicians that spoke out and
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reaffirmed the values and principles
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that they are defending no one did this
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better than presiden
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seleni let me conclude and this becomes
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difficult
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in writing this video it became clear to
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me that this is why we are producing
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Islander magazine the entire purpose of
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the magazine is to help the West
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ReDiscover its thotics and understand
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itself so we can reflect properly on our
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own sentimental heroic and necessary
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existence and recapture the spirit and
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pride required to push outwards against
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the world issue 3 is currently on sale
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at shop. l.com and I strongly recommend
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it as I'm convinced that the essays here
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will help you find this moral grounding
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in the way that they have helped me as
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with the previous issues of Islander
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we're only printing this once so the
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link is in the description get your copy
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before it's gone because when it's gone
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forever what's going
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on are you come back did you were you
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sick at school were you yeah I Dr yeah
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at school you speaking to the microphone
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I'm recording no no you got I want to go
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back my ride I back ride you say hello I
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go back ride no we can't go on to bike
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ride now cuz you're not feeling well so
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you need to relax I better you're oh are
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you we can go back to school then can't
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you yeah but I've got to I'm I'm doing
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my record no no listen listen we can go
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on a b ride later okay I'm doing my
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recording now but we'll go on a b ride
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later okay I'll let you know when we can
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go on a bike ride but I can't go now
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till I got do my work so right you go
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back in the living room you go back in
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and I'll see you in a little bit
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okay good boy love you lots
