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What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Parker Palmer

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Was für politischen Realismus gilt, mag für lebhafte akademische Debatten sorgen. Ironischerweise fungiert sie jedoch häufig als Werkzeug sozialer Kontrolle und macht uns durch eine Analyse, die uns überwältigt und lähmt, passiv.

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