Yes.
Well no, limited opioids. You think depression is new? Maybe, to some extent. People had to keep going in the past and that helps. Sympathy for sufferers is quite new. Violence has clearly decreased tho. See Pinker.
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I meant epidemics - limited epidemics, but I really don't think we can settle any of these examples on Twitter
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Epidemics of what. I find I'm not getting your point.
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Drug use. I accept there are drunkards around in Greek myths and medieval tales, but not massive epidemics of addiction.
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I don't know enough about this period to say but it seems likely more drugs are in existence and accessible now.
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Goodnight, Jacob. Thanks for the chat.
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But to get back to what we began with (I think I just deleted a tweet which said this), I wrote the article because I was frustrated by a misappropriation of Kant (not by you), which I wanted to correct. What provoked it is that when I read today's classical liberals I'm often...
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frustrated by the spectacular self-belief, which can be patronising. I was reading Lenin the other day (long story): didn't fnd it patronising. The day before I was reading Burke, and even that didn't feel patronising. I guess it comes from considering a...
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...belief system (forgive me) as something more than an ideology, something pseudo-religious - eternal truth.
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I don't know what that means
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