Politics will never satisfy the masses, and it will always fool most of them to a certain extent, so then we get into a cognitive dissonance cycle that oscillates back and forth between election cycles. Highly entropic.
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Playing with/holding your kid/baby is the attractive way of avoiding social interaction than looking at your phone.
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Politicians are more of a priestly class than many people would like to discern. And yet for all the clamoring and criticisms against them, they are necessary since people prefer to delegate responsibilities to someone else.
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It's saddening to return to "normal" life with its excessive individuality and lack of spontaneous fun and random connections.
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This goes to show how arbitrary and epistemologically worthless ideologies often are.
So now the left want to buy tanks, the right want to buy EVs, the UK Labour govt is pro-austerity, the Austrians have an affinity for QE, the Chinese are looking to boost consumption & the Germans are fiscal keynesians.
And Trump took office less than two months ago
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Much of life is a conscious struggle to seemingly replace bad with good but it's ultimately trading one set of good and bad with another set of good and bad. Life isn't at its fullest in the outcomes, it's fullest in the jump between them.
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