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Pete Reads Ryszard Legutko's 'Demon in Democracy' - Complete

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Peter R Quiñones

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 545 minutes

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9 Hours and 5 Minutes

PG-13

This is the complete audio of Pete's reading of a book that greatly influenced him, "The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies" by Ryszard Legutko.

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0:00.0

Well, and welcome everyone to my next reading. I just finished reading, but in finish,

0:06.4

true believer by Eric Hoffer. I just became, oh, I mean, I did what a lot of us do. You read a book,

0:14.1

and I told you I was reading it with you. I'd never read it before. And you decide, yep, this book is

0:19.3

crap. And, um, yeah, I think that I read far enough to get the gist of his message.

0:27.6

I think I showed you where the flaws are.

0:31.2

And I want to move on to something else.

0:33.0

And this next book is very important to me because when I finally was able to just say out loud,

0:41.2

there's no way I can be a libertarian anymore.

0:43.8

I don't believe that, I just don't believe in it and not in the way that it is promoted.

0:53.6

This book, The Demon in Democracy, Rizard La Gutko.

1:00.1

This is the one that probably spoke to me the most, where I reached one point in the book,

1:07.1

and I just said out loud, yeah, I can't be a libertarian anymore. It just

1:12.4

this doesn't make sense to me. So, all right, I think I also, the reason I want to read this book is,

1:20.5

first of all, it's great. The arguments are, I mean, steel manned. And it's one of those, one of those readings and commentaries that you can give to your friends.

1:32.2

You can give to Normies.

1:34.4

This is a book that actually I think you can, that Normies can pick up.

1:38.4

And especially if they've been following, say they're a Trump supporter or something like that,

1:43.4

someone who sees there

1:44.1

just is something really wrong, but this is something you could actually give to them.

1:49.4

So I'll try and make it as normally friendly as possible.

1:53.3

All right.

1:54.1

A little bit about Lagutko.

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