A structured debate arising from The Politics of Civilizational Healing. The episode keeps a central tension visible and tests what follows from competing judgments.
The guiding question
Why do societies reproduce arrangements whose life-disabling consequences are already recognized?
About this audio programme
This is Episode 114 of Toward Life-Knowledge and part of the Civilizational Healing Podcast collection. It is the Debate companion to T1.
Source
Source paper: Bichara Sahely, “The Politics of Civilizational Healing: Power, Incumbency, and Transformational Capacity.”
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AI acknowledgement
This podcast episode was generated with Google Gemini NotebookLM from the source paper. The conversational structure, interpretation, and narration are AI-generated. It is an interpretive companion—not a substitute for the canonical paper, independent peer review, or the author’s direct spoken voice. The source paper remains authoritative for the complete argument, evidence, qualifications, and references.
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