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Kei Watanabe's avatar

Love the story. This has to be the most popular post in your newsletter, no?

My favorite quotes: "It’s frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what’s going on."

"Understanding that each person is doing the best that he/she can with limited knowledge in the face of an infinitely-complex future leaves room for the grace, patience, and empathy so lacking in our modern times."

Also, my learning: https://glasp.co/kei/p/0bb697baabce3dffb76e

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Tom White's avatar

Thank you Kei!

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Upadesh Bhatta's avatar

Interesting, the article made it clear, the things that I thought I already knew.😀

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Tom White's avatar

One of my favorite comments of all time!

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Kevin Davis's avatar

I'm not sure if I should be encouraged, but anyhow, I enjoyed it :]

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Tom White's avatar

You should be! We’re all just winging it. Why not you to change the world and/or do something marvelous?

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R.W. Richey's avatar

I loved the example of Mario Puzo. But also a terrifically important point in general.

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Tom White's avatar

Thank you!

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Redskelton's avatar

The public doesn't deserve experts.

Substack is filled with self-righteous turd burglars who pick up other people's work and fling it around aimlessly in all directions.

The public model of report the tweets is the failure.

So we shouldn't try to help the public or reform the rot.

Build your own five man team of the most ruthless mofos out there and start going around and offing people in power.

That's what stole the planet and turned it into a prison.

The trapeze junkies for their own ego are what gets clicks. They make sensational stars like Hollywood Boulevard but like Hollywood Boulevard the whores, homeless and deplorable win.

You can't win by these rules. You are ruled by those that won and built this circus.

Stop typing in a box.

Open a physical place with a private army and take back what is yours.

Every aspect of this quagmire is against you. And even that knowledge escapes you.

Your prison is your own mind.

You are your own pile of festering ideas.

You are the failure that plagues the planet.

Enjoying your golf course and pickleball

While National Guard are deployed in California was your sign.

I am rooting for and hoping for and promoting your own Extermination.

You earned, saluted, prayed for in your box churches this fateful day.

Nothing could be said to you to change the course of your programming.

No horror or genocide or your own child's castration can promote any actual response from your lifeless corpse.

The conditioning worked.

American Zombie films worked.

You are the end of humanity as parents emerges on your DNA modified Palantir surveilled whack-offs in suits and generation porn tattoo.

The scene of your culture is worse than your Porn.

You suck and you became so good at it. It is all your kids do for money ONLINE.

Wherever the pile begins to build is the new expert.

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