VegetableMan wrote:
We just keep rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic every few years. Sadly, continuing to play this game only strengthens the disease that gave us Trump. And we are strengthening that disease at a frightening pace right now.
Part of the trouble - virtue signaling, effort for returns, is much easier and much more economic than actually doing the work to solve problems. It also causes no fear or hostility at all for those who are mismanaging the system.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
01 Jul 2021, 10:18 am
