In the process of trying to find out what happened,
You will be told how to think about what happened.
I think that this is almost entirely unavoidable.
Knowing this, it’s probably best to consume a range of news sources from different parts of the political spectrum.
There is some hope that, in doing this, their biases will cancel each other out – at least to some extent.
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Even though you are a person,
Try not to take it all so personally.
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Experience paradox as wonder,
Not discomfort.
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A lot of what we call ‘the past’, isn’t.
You haven’t put it behind us,
And we might never put it behind us.
Something may be in your past, in the temporal sense
But with you forever in your lived experience.
And until you manage to shake it,
You can’t call it the past
As it invades your current moment
And as you relive it every day.
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The most prolific and successful liars
Actually believe their lies.
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A good many of your problems are imaginary,
And do not require solving.
This also applies to the problems of others.
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Collectively…
We are not held together by love, national pride or common humanity.
No,
We are held together by the market, the global reserve currency.
The driving force is necessity, or perhaps convenience.
We don’t love each other,
But we do need each other.
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In one way,
You could think of ageing as
The expiration of novelty in your life.
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Science is a process,
Not an establishment.
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Western values,
Like the idea of equality amongst intersectional classes
And of freedom of speech…
These values are acquired tastes
And, like many acquired tastes
Not everyone will acquire them.
Assuming that a nation will eventually acquire these values
And/or trying to force our values upon them
This is unrealistic
And also perhaps a little arrogant.
Who is to say that they need (or even want) our political system?
Or our worldview?
Some people just wish to be left alone.
It would seem that some cultures are simply less ‘compatible’ with ours.
And this is not a bad thing. Diversity of opinion is still important, right?
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