The spell of the War was good and finally broken around Katrina, when I think the country collectively realized Bush was broken. It was a bit of a relief, but even then--I don't know. I don't think things seemed anywhere near as bad during the GWoT as they do now.
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The week Bear and Lehman went down, I did buy some extra supplies just in case things got dicey, but that passed pretty quickly. There was a kind of lights-going-out-all-over-Europe vibe to it, though. Probably we haven't really recovered.
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I guess I keep returning to what I thought and who I was when I was trying to go to sleep on 1/1/00 trying to wrap my head around what in God's name could have gone so horribly awry that led us to This If Covid had hit instead of 9/11, would it be like this? I don't think so
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I don't know. I don't know what I could have done differently. I don't know. Just feels bad, man. A whole beautiful future just pfffft.
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1/5 I think the cycle we are in repeats itself infinitely. A season of growth, and a season of survival, of change. In the former we build and grow until our colossal systems can scarcely bear their own weight. Then, in this season, we get a dark age. We regress. We fall apart.
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2/5 We lose what we have built. We slip. But we find our footing again, always. The question is only how far down do we slip, and that's up to us. But even if we don't like this season, we couldn't grow straight and strong without it.
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3/5 We would just keep building crooked until we wound up here regardless. So don't lament the setting sun. The longer we try to delay it, the harsher the night gets.
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4/5 Meet it head on, try to welcome whatever the future brings, and do your best to protect the things that matter to you during the night.
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5/5 Whether we get lucky and have a 2 year dark age, a 10 year one, or something that exceeds our lifetimes, the same thing is still asked of us in each case: Survive. Make it through the night as intact as you can, with as much as you could protect.
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