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223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory

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I Think It's Worse Than What We Saw With His Predecessors

i think it is worse than what we saw with his predecessors. He was deflectory almost all the time, he'd talk about completely nonsensical things. And of course, the media helped him by asking him nonsensical things. We actually comply in this social contract with our apathy, that we don't demand better, but we want to be entertained. It's all theatre, and therefore it's all fiction. This is the point of the examplebut it's all, i its constructed reality. It's not real. Most people know that. But thee, i think, at least the people that i interact with, they recognize it, and they don't care. They've been taught this

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