A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
A mediocre one does. A great one rises above this.
Though others can still successfully paint him as enemy. We all know whom I’m referring to.
“The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the power of all true science. He [or she] to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.”
Albert Einstein
This is exactly what I feel that I’m losing
“This is not a good omen. If Gillespie wins, or the result is close, it means the Trump-transformed GOP is electorally viable in every swing district in 2018. That it could win in the state where actual white supremacists marched this past summer and when the president is 20 points underwater is a sobering reminder of the actual state of play in our politics. I can only hope it’s a wake-up call to the Dems. In 2017, they are either useless or actively counterproductive in the struggle to resist right-authoritarianism. They have learned nothing from 2016. Their intelligentsia seems determined to ensure that no midwestern whites ever vote for the party again. Their public faces are still Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi. They still believe that something other than electoral politics — the courts, the press, the special counsel — will propel them back to power. They can’t seem to grasp the nettle of left-populism. And they remain obsessed with a Russia scandal that most swing voters don’t give a damn about.
They think they are “woke.” They are, in fact, in a political coma.”
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
We must not, therefore, wonder whether we really perceive a world, we must instead say: the world is what we perceive.
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Extroverts under the delusion that introverts are ill need to stop
The Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state but otherwise forbade slavery above the 36th parallel, effectively drew the lines for the sectional battle to follow. (via A Refusal to Compromise? Civil War Historians Beg to Differ)
A fascinating read. I know too little of the history of the country I live in.
And yes – it was a refusal to compromise – on the part of the slaveholding states.
I’m reading too much news again.
The way things seem now is – things are so hopelessly polarized, some, but very precious few, see that Facebook and AI-controlled information flows are already killing our existence, but they are far from majority, our civilization is becoming unsustainably complex, there are too many people on this planet, the inequality just keeps growing even as we try to eliminate inefficiencies, and things just can’t continue the way they have been. People seriously say bannon-nesque things like that only a major crisis (war? revolution? US bankrupcy? pandemic? ) will take us out of this, but I feel like they have no real idea of the scale of misery that will accompany this.
I just want to have a place to hide and wait it all out.
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