I was probably at my most brokenness in the throes of the pandemic. The experience of watching even that be so easily and neatly subsumed by our partisan rancor. I think if you can maintain having both brokenness and status quoist ways of looking at the world, what that allows you to do is judge things at a local level. It's a little bit like cleaning out your closet. If you have a philosophy about your closet, you're going to end up with a bad closet.

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