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The Social Contract
Season 5
Episode 575
Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago
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GEORGE:
Today: the social contract.
Who bears the risk, who gets protected, who gets blamed, and who gets forgotten—
in plague-time England and in COVID-era America.
Quick reminder: my Shakespeare can look back from the present day at his life on earth—films, scholarship, modern claims—
but he cannot predict the future. No prophecy.
WILL:
Memory, yes.
Foresight, no.
GEORGE:
When I say “social contract,” I don’t mean a philosophy seminar.
I mean the unwritten deal we make in a crisis:
Who is asked to sacrifice?
Who is allowed to stay safe?
Who is policed?
Who is believed?
WILL:
And who is… expendable.
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