This is a brave attempt by to make a difficult point. I've tried and failed to make it myself multiple times in conversation, but never in an essay. Whoever can make this point in a crystal clear and evocative way can probably be president.
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You have no idea how relieved I'm feeling right now. Thought there's something wrong with me bc I couldn't articulate my thoughts about this
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What's hard I think is that "graphs up and to the right!" people are not wrong, but they're missing what they're missing not because of bad faith, privilege or authoritarian high modernism as people (reasonably) assume. They're more like drunks looking for keys under streetlight.

