The Age of Apocalypse
What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead
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The Shadow of a Singularity
The prospect of a fundamental change in the conditions of human existence looms larger from year to year apocalypse used to be a religious even a mythological concept but in our time it is becoming a political possibility. We're all living with the idea that things that we do or not do could make the difference between human extinction and human flourishing. When that happens the nature of politics changes in a sense politics becomes religion because politics is not about well if you raise the sales tax 2% that's going to help some people and hurt others.
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