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Leon Kato

Leon Kato

Leon is a Dutch social scientist and co-host of the leftist media-and-theory podcast The Left Page & Here Be Media, and has appeared as a guest on the Acid Horizon philosophy podcast.

Sep 24, 2026

AdamHOST
33:46
the conscience, the conscience of society's institutions such that people would ever bother to find themselves as, as, as willing to perpetuate them.
33:55
Definitely.
33:56
I too owe the credit to all those points.
33:58
It is very pleasant and maybe not entirely accidental that our story starts with this propagandistic order of reminiscence which passes as a, uh, you know, historians in these worlds.
34:12
And, uh, you know, Hegel had also a couple of things to say about his- history, and, uh, you know, as, as one of the fundamental tools to make sense of our place and time of society.
34:22
And I think to also touch upon and try and conjoin that with the point of no subjectivity for the Emperor.
34:30
I mean, if we go by a, an initial reading of the Emperor, it, it is entirely by design.

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AdamHOST
47:52
But no one's like, "I wanna get, I wanna read the book of Vader," and be like, "You know what? This is fucking sick, this is." Whereas with 40K, there is absolutely a way in which one can really get sucked in that kind of subjectivity and even have, even, and, even if you haven't interacted with the game in the c- in the case of, yes, God Emperor Trump, which I guess in some extent is kind of an attempt to make him someone who isn't a subject, because if he is, then mother of God.

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