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31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes

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The Future Is Coming Soon

The two older generations of americans who were to duke it out in the race for the presidency shared a single purpose. Their common goal was to stop the future from arriving at essentially any cost, so that they could live out the remaining days in as close to their childhood and young adulthood as possible. This is related to francis fukiama's theory of the end of history. To this way of thinking, what was happening was simple. The magic trick of holding back nearly all aspects of our true future required all three elements to be placed simultaneously. In fact, all that had occurred was that their luck had finally run out with the covid virus. If you can't get a

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