2022-01-15
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Today's episode is on Karl Popper's landmark work, The Open Society and Its Enemies.
So on September 1st, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland,
notoriously marking the beginning of the Second World War and marking the beginning of an age where fascism and totalitarianism posed a new level of threat towards Western liberal democracy.
There were a lot of thinkers at the time that were worried about this whole state of affairs.
And they decided that the best thing to do would be to take up arms against it.
Not to take up arms in the actual war itself,
but instead in the war of ideas that was riding shotgun in the Panzer IV tanks trying to tank over the world at the time.