Escape from Freedom (pt 2)
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Populism and the American Dream
On the extremes of the right, we had brexet and trump as a reaction against systems that disfranchised or alienated people. They also voted for a reversion to ationalism, and they chose a bully as their mascot. On the left, we ended up having race riots and the flexing of social power to cancel the powerful,. In their boots and go into hiding. Of course, we now have language policing and repressive tolerance demanding submission in the name of solid arity. Now, after reading from feels like the burden of making decisions daily, exercising freedom and genuine thinking is just too exhausting. I mean, it might actually just feel better to be a cheer leader than
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