From e1caa14984ff576e7aa6f6e2593d038b2a8270b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepak Jois Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:39:49 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Obsidian Sync 2024-11-19 16:39:49 --- content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md index 75f06306..b2316bc1 100644 --- a/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md +++ b/content/daily-notes/2024-11-19.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ From a review in [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/n #### A Materialist Analysis of US Election Results [Why Are Poor Americans Voting for the Party of the Rich? | Listen Notes](https://lnns.co/lANz_msVn-U) #materialism -Adam Tooze gave from what all I have read, a really fresh analysis of the US election results from a +Adam Tooze gave from what all I have read, a really fresh analysis of the US election results from a materialist theory perspective. It's a rather long quote I picked out from the transcript, but it's really worth it. I really like the analogy at the end > Yeah, this is a great question. And I mean, I think at the most general level, the issue with materialism and the critics of materialism—materialism being the big, grand, metaphysical, almost philosophical idea that it's what we eat that determines who we are more than what we think. It's realities, it's the means through which and the way in which we reproduce our lives that shapes identities and assumptions about the world, right? That basic premise. >