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Talking Symbollox: How the Most Important Divide in Politics Isn’t between Left and Right
Homo symbolicus. I like that term. I like it a lot. Yes, not Homo sapiens, “Knowing Man,” but Homo symbolicus, “Symbolic Man.” That was a concise and clever suggestion by the Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945). We humans shouldn’t classify ourselves as sapients, but as symbolizers. After all, without symbols we lose sapience and sink […]




