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16 sats \ 4 replies \ @kepford 20 May \ parent \ on: Barney Frank, Liberal Icon Who Regulated ‘too big’ Financial Industry Dies at 86 Politics_And_Law econ

The bar is so low. Ultimately we have problems much deeper than politics.

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77 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cje95 OP 20 May

110% agree. Politics is just where it can show its head.

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6 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 20 May

Sadly, for most people this seems to be the space they focus on most and have the mistaken belief political solutions should be the primary approach.

I've been re-examining my priors recently and it has me remembering things I had forgotten. Modernity and post-modernity has blinded us. We can't go back but we should look back and see what we have lost. There are always tradeoffs.

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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @justin_shocknet 20 May
Modernity and post-modernity

Politics are older than the written word. Things really go off the rails when good people abdicate over these transcendent virtue signals.

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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 20 May

True, and yet you'd think that spectrum of political thought only goes back 100 years or so based on where we are today.

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