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Newsletter Nr. 1.471
Amsterdam, December 12, 2025


Yanis Varoufakis: Insightful Dissident or Anti-Western Ideologue? - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

Few contemporary public intellectuals generate such polarized reactions as Yanis Varoufakis. To some, he is one of Europe's most incisive critics of Western economic and foreign-policy orthodoxy—a Cassandra diagnosing structural failures before they erupt into crises. To others, he is a clever ideologue whose commentary consistently blames the West for global instability, thereby undermining its democratic alliances.

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Between Instinct and Consciousness: East Asia's Sophisticated Animism - Jan Krikke

Scholars have often characterized Chinese cosmology as “non-dualist,” “organismic,” or “processual.” These terms hint at a worldview in which nature, mind, and cosmos comprise a seamless whole. Yet one description captures the heart of this worldview more directly: the Chinese conception of the Dao can be understood as a sophisticated form of animism.

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https://www.integralworld.net/krikke27.html