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After Dark – On Why the Alienating, Anti-Human Trends Making Us Miserable Don’t Make It Into Our Politics

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Democracy Is a Product of the Entitlement

i think it's part of what we were talking about earlier, in this, like mass challenging of some assumptions of the past. Democracy has made people consumerist goblins who have elevated bad politicians and these bad corporate leaders to power becase they wanted cheap chinese goods,. And because we live in thi objectivist world where we just are we're consumers, right? We've allowed ourselves, we have votednd spent our ways willingly. But i don't know how to square that circle at all. I don't think replacing in a culture that's so broken, i don't think you can replace orr bad oligarchs with good oligarchs, benign oligarchs - better than the bad

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