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Elliot Ackerman on Writing, Military Service, and Polarization | People Do Well When They Can

The Daily Stoic

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Do You Have Similar Backgrounds, but Have Different Directions?

I think it's a helpful exercise when some one has a very similar background or history than you, and then you see them go in a very different direction. I can't quite figure out what compels a person to go that way. Is it power? Is it greed? Is it fear? Is it desperation? i don't believe the problem with our country isn't that we don't have good people. They're just like, stuck in a system that is not a good this is a healthy system. We've got issues whether it's social media rewards outrageous behavior andt rewards rage. The civil military divide worries me the most because of all the guns on air bases. It

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