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Published · transcript-backedEric Kaufmann: belief
3 Jul 2019 Conversations with Tyler Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
“Now, it doesn’t mean I’m closed to an argument for making some alterations, but I think the essence of it should be preserved.”
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- Eric Kaufmann
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- belief
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- 3 Jul 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Do you think that reflects anything about your underlying worldview? Or it’s just an arbitrary aesthetic opinion? No, no, I think you’re probably right, as I guess I’m relatively . . . We should, obviously, have new architecture and change, but iconography like that should be preserved in the form that it was. That’s what people are attached to. Now, it doesn’t mean I’m closed to an argument for making some alterations, but I think the essence of it should be preserved. If we’re in the middle of the 19th century, and the French are debating whether to put up that spire at Notre Dame, are you for that or against it?…
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