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Passion & Analysis

Passion & Analysis
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From Inventing the Future, by Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams

If politics without passion leads to cold-hearted, bureaucratic technocracy, then passion bereft of analysis risks becoming a libidinally driven surrogate for effective action. Politics comes to be about feelings of personal empowerment, masking an absence of strategic gains.”

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