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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 21 Mar 2018
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    What problem is American society most in denial about, and refusing to face head-on, across the political spectrum? Bonus: who are the lonely voices flagging them?

    9:02 AM - 21 Mar 2018
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      1. Beth Phillips‏ @BeingHomeBlog 21 Mar 2018
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        Crushing student/PLUS loan debt and the scam of forcing students into courses ("core or major req") that they're forced to pay for that might have nothing to do with their career/interest. It's ruining people with no guaranteed ROI.

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      1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 21 Mar 2018
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        The impending and inevitable technocracy. Everyone seems to be flagging a part of that elephant -- e.g. Yudkowsky and AI risk. I haven't seen a holistic one since cyberpunk went out of style.

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      2. Dan listens to the world changing‏ @danlistensto 21 Mar 2018
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        we're in the middle of a constitutional crisis and nobody is willing to even bring up the topic of a new constitutional convention because it's so obviously dreadful who the delegations would consist of and what damage they would do if allowed.

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      3. shi buyuan / billowing grinds‏ @roeghmann 21 Mar 2018
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        it seems impossible to come up with a set of, say, 100 people who a majority of americans would accept to write a new constitution... but what's the alternative? would we leave it to direct online voting?? would a convention just reveal that we have no reason left to stay united?

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      2. zach latta‏ @zachlatta 21 Mar 2018
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        Lack of shared national narrative, lack of hope in youth, failing education system

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      3. zach latta‏ @zachlatta 21 Mar 2018
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        Lack of shared national narrative should probably actually be loss of. Feels like we used to have it.

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      1. Brett Williams‏ @brettlwilliams 21 Mar 2018
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        The ease in which a minority can veto any movement on an issue. Not that minorities can rule, but they can create gridlock far too easily. Fukuyama calls this Vetocracy in the Political Order series.

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      2. Marrrrrrrrrk P Xu Neyerrrrrrrrrrr‏ @APXHard 21 Mar 2018
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        The red/blue partisan divide makes people encourage the worst behavior on the other side, and excuse bad behavior on their own side. Just as Satan keeps the church in business, the democrats and republicans need each other to justify their own awful existences.

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      3. edumurphy‏ @razorsmile 21 Mar 2018
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        "The strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil ... you don’t actually need a god to create a cult, but you do need an enemy or a devil.” - Mia Donovan

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      2. neil21‏ @neil21 21 Mar 2018
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        @StrongTowns

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        More explicitly: motordom as the default landscape, built and funded by state and federal megaprojects.

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