Episode 4.31: Newness in ideas, music, art, religion, challenges the finality of prevailing states.

Totalitarian regimes - but it’s also true of liberal western democracies - that think that they have enacted the revolution to ends all revolutions are naturally antipathetic to anything that suggests that there is still more to be done; and in particular to new music, art, any kind of thinking that suggests that their solution - their revolution - is not final.