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Baeraad's avatar

A very thoughtful and well-considered article. I'm not sure, though, that I'm quite so willing to let the liberal establishment off the hook just for being the lesser evil. I mean, they certainly are, and that's why I still continue voting for them even as it gives me a foul taste in my mouth. But I don't think that man-children like Musk would have been running amok if the people we trusted to be the grownups in the room hadn't so completely failed at the task.

I do believe that people will eventually get tired of the Musks of the world, and ready to return to some kind of normalcy. But when that moment comes, the intellectuals and champions of enlightenment need to have had their internal reckoning and figured out how to do better, or we'll end up getting a second round of Muskitude... and maybe even a third and a fourth, if a viable alternative takes too long to come into being.

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Windriven's avatar

Recognizing that biases explicit and implicit infect us all demands from each of us a profound commitment to critical thinking. Anything less telegraphs that we don't actually care about truth, about facts; we care only that our biases be confirmed.

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