Venkatesh Rao@vgrDamn this reads like a war zone descriptionnytimes.comOpinion | Who Killed the Knapp Family? (Published 2020)Across America, working-class people — including many of our friends — are dying of despair. And we’re still blaming the wrong people.6:46 AM · Jan 13, 20201 Retweet12 Likes
Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jan 13, 2020Something something false hope of freedom and agency leading to lack of sufficient true fear of bad things. A very American kind of tragedy born of irrational optimism.28