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“There’s no fulcrum on which to rest a policy lever. People of all ages sense that something huge will have to sweep across America before the gloom can be lifted, but that’s an awareness we suppress”
Cascading systems failures at all levels make it difficult to debug one issue without first tackling it at another. There is no root trace back. Rather the challenge is pruning an ever blighted rhizome.
— Oct 29, 2023 10:24AM
Cascading systems failures at all levels make it difficult to debug one issue without first tackling it at another. There is no root trace back. Rather the challenge is pruning an ever blighted rhizome.
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Gabriel Ortiz
is 90% done
“Boomers are a destructive generation who’s work is not over yet”
“The same boomers who chanted hell no we won’t go will emerge as the most martial generation in recent American history. They will risk enormous pain and consequence and demand their youth to fight and die in ways they would not have tolerated in their youth.”
— Oct 29, 2023 06:56PM
“The same boomers who chanted hell no we won’t go will emerge as the most martial generation in recent American history. They will risk enormous pain and consequence and demand their youth to fight and die in ways they would not have tolerated in their youth.”
Gabriel Ortiz
is 84% done
Incredibly prescient comments of emerging crisis. Many interesting analogies to the Trump presidency era and the subsequent years.
From the perspective of a Zillenial, Strausses predictions hit home, an all fronts. However, it is also easy to extrapolate much of past history into infinity, as he also criticized from the linear perspective at the beginning of the novel.
— Oct 29, 2023 06:34PM
From the perspective of a Zillenial, Strausses predictions hit home, an all fronts. However, it is also easy to extrapolate much of past history into infinity, as he also criticized from the linear perspective at the beginning of the novel.

