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Schrodinger’s Cat's avatar

Hunter S. Thompson said it years ago: When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. I would substitute the word “insane” for the word “weird.” But Thompson nailed it regardless. Try to be kind and compassionate to each other, and to hold onto whatever semblance of sanity you can as the USA goes down the drain into some dark and dystopian place. Personally I like to hold onto the thought that multiverses and parallel worlds do indeed exist and on some of them humans have learned to live in balance with the environment and never came up with the idea of abstract wealth and the desire to amass vast amounts of it by a tiny few at the expense of the rest of us. One can dream.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

"a betrayed population is conditioned to exploit everyone around them in a desperate scramble to advance. People are objects to be used, mirroring the cruelty inflicted by the ruling class".

The sheer volume of hackers maniacally attempting to steal resources and identities from working and retired people provides a good measure of this exploitation that drives so much of the ethos by which this society operates. And it is indeed a mirror of the root illness.

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