We tend to be attuned to 1-2 aspects of a society — economy, entrepreneurial vitality, public civility, violence, courts, legislation, wars, healthcare, immigration, environment, corruption, minorities — that most interest us and assume if our bits is going well, things are fine.
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I’m getting this really unpleasant sense that we’re in the political equivalent of the LTCM situation when things supposed to be hedged against each other became correlated. In short, the fucked-upness of things is no longer i.i.d (independent and identically distributed)
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Not to be a massive localism bore. But small town mentality does mean that when you ask the person who lives next to you 'How's it going' they will probably say 'shit'
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Ah but it is also likely to actually be shitty most of the time 😎
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