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Lauri's avatar

Yes, on a casual level, when one speaks to people, one finds that we are taking pride in finding reasons to disagree these days- we can only agree on a certain percent of any platform, and on the points we do not agree, we are holding firm. And on those points, the person we are talking to also holds firm. So we find ourselves divided into every smaller factions, sometimes factions of one. This is a pandemic.

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TH Spring's avatar

The last paragraph of this thoughtful piece gets to the heart of Western fragmentation. We need a new vision. The old visions of left and right are exhausted, bankrupt, illusory. It's not hard to envision a reasonable path forward. A path, perhaps, that attempts to decouple politics with utopianism or transcendence. Sounds boring? Well, that's the challenge.

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