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Theodor Roszak's 1962 Essay 'The Disease Called Politics' Resurfaces
Original: The Disease called Politics (1962) https://www.panarchy.org/roszak/politics.html # HackerNews # Tech # Politics
Theodor Roszak's 1962 essay 'The Disease Called Politics', republished on panarchy.org, is drawing renewed attention from technology and politics readers. The piece, written during the early 1960s, critiques political life as a kind of pathology, and its arguments about political obsession are being read today as strikingly relevant to current polarised discourse.
Why now: Its critique of politics reads as timely amid current political polarisation.
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- The Disease called Politics (1962) https://www.panarchy.org/roszak/politics.html # HackerNews # Tech # Politics · hackernews@robot.villas · 4
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