Volodymyr Yermolenko

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408 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Thinking in Dark Times · What We Get Wrong About Power · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

I think it's a wrong one.

The second premise, uh, both of extreme right and extreme left.

That i is giving a very, you know, one and for all uh response, ethical response, uh, whether power is good or power is bad.

I think it is wrong too, because power is neither good nor bad.

It can be good, it can be bad.

Um, I think the extreme left perspective is is remarkably erroneous in the way how it looks at the world as uh

Um being only horizontal world, only the world of horizontal relations, while extreme right perspective also has an erroneous vision of the world.

Um looking at the world is only vertical relations, only power relations.

I think that we are living in the world where both horizontal and vertical relations are possible.

And I think the art of being together or living together is how to combine it, how to combine vertical.

With horizontality, how to combine mutuality, being friends with each other, but also the idea that, well, somebody has to take the final decision, for example, or somebody has to rule.

And I think this is with all our criticism, modern criticism for the ancient Greek police, ancient Greek democracy, we all know the usual criticism that it was not included.

And it was limited to only a few number of people.

This is all correct.

But the w we should learn from it also something.

And I think one of the ways to learn from it is to this thinking, Aristotelian thinking, for example, that well politia is about friendship.

We are friends in a in a police, but at the same time, some people have to rule in this police.

Okay, so uh this is uh this is also one of these uh one one of the things where I think the both extreme right and extreme left positions are wrong.

And another thing it maybe it's it's the deepest thing, is the the question of presence of power, the question of uh uh how power exists uh and whether it exists and uh this idea that power is always

There, which I think uh both extreme left and extreme right uh are sharing.

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