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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

What Don't Look Up is really about

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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How Do We Change the System From Within?

The arc of de caprio's character, this journey from serious, authentic, concerned scientists to kind of half baked celebrity is so instructive. And you can see that same process of self justifying delusion that propels so many into power, right? You just keep towin yourself, if i can just make a few more moral compromises, i can get inside the system, and i can change it from within. The art of lobbying in american politics is to convince the lawmaker that they are actually doing righ by their constituents. As monstrous as some of these politicians are, most don't like thinking of themselves as monsters.

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