Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. Thank you to everyone that supports the show on Patreon.

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they're shutting it down. It's no longer a way that you can support the show.

Don't know exactly what I'm going to do but I'm going to look into all options moving forward.

I really want the show to continue to be solely crowdfunded. I like that.

But on the other hand, I was in the hospital four times last year and have medical bills so I'm going to figure it out.

Thank you for your patience moving forward. One thing that's never going to change is the quality of the show.

We'll always do my best there. Speaking of which, today we're releasing two new episodes of the show.

Try to listen to them back to back if you can. They kind of go together.

But this one is part four in our series on Gildalus. I hope you love the show today.

So all throughout this series, we've talked about different ways to lose and watery.

You want to get us out of thinking about things in the traditional rigid ways we've approached things in the past.

They've asked us to think about ontology differently, politics differently.

They've questioned the individual, humanistic perspective we typically view everything through.

They've even asked us to question things like the nature of time and the linear way that we typically view history

is though it's been this straightforward crescendo of progress.

It's all been leading to this moment right now.

So it'll probably come as no surprise and in the second volume of capitalism in schizophrenia,

titled a thousand plateaus.

Delus and Guadaree are going to want to do the same thing in other areas.

They want to offer a completely different way to think about the questions surrounding social theory.

Or if you want to get all Webster's Dictionary on people, social theory,

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