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HUMDEEDEE's avatar

The good of this country seems to have long since been rendered unimportant and certainly non-essential by most politicians. Those who want the best for the country wouldn't make it past one term if they were sincere and actively working toward that end, to wit, DJT.

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KW NORTON's avatar

Good post! Delving into the reasons why we live under such a fog of mass insanity is difficult. There are many complexities as you point out. For me, always taking cover under the guise of Occam's Razor, because simple is how I think - I view it from one rather limited perspective. Our Faustian bargain with Big Tech is now legendary. We have caved at every new turn. The simple truth is Big Tech demanded a certain passive-aggressiveness from us all. Once social media developed into a thing it clearly selected for these behaviors. Engage in passive aggressive behavior for long enough and it results in anger - the kind most humans don't overcome. Stay angry and helpless feeling long enough and you get toxic narcissism. Toxic narcissism is a mental illness. This is where we are at now - lost in a fog of mental illness, mass hysteria, or whatever it is people are calling in this summer.

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