The best description of the present moment is that all large-scale consensus about the “right side of history” has dissolved. It’s a bunch of funhouse mirrors.
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I pick that little green bit at 9 ‘o clock that’s stable for like half a second
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Because if it didn’t dissolve, that large-scale consensus would do some major, much needed damage to the wrong side of history in which we’re currently immersed. There’s too much at stake for the wrongers to let that happen.
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arendt draws a satisfying connection btw the moral unmooring of the Romantic era and the birth of political extremism in Origins
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