Dang, you have done an excellent job on your story, and even though I don't often comment, that is why I hang out on your digital front porch. You consistently avoid resorting to the usual click-bait fear porn that chokes up so much of Substack these days. Bravo!
Well, he did say protestors should be sent to volunteer in North Korea for a year or something. I'm always a little anxious when thinking about this. However, it's going to happen one way or the other. I guess I'd rather these two people than some others. I don't love any of it.
Like I said I am trying to sift through the various ideas he expresses, and while there are things that he says I agree with, I am not down with collective identity and “we have to act and not deliberate”.
I think hesitation and it anxiety over this is actually instinct telling us to evaluate rather than merely react.
in an earlier discussion today someone commented about being paralyzed by fear to which I responded that I’ll make up my own mind for myself, and wanting to evaluate is not fear by any stretch.
"Pythagoreans"
I would just write that as "Psychopathic nepotism hire racial supremacist assholes with pretty banal ideas".
Perhaps I’ll title my follow up as “The Algebra of Aholes”.
My concern is that Karo is better at the sales pitch and policy pitch than Elawn or Zuckerberg. I can see him being more convincing to bureaucrats.
Dang, you have done an excellent job on your story, and even though I don't often comment, that is why I hang out on your digital front porch. You consistently avoid resorting to the usual click-bait fear porn that chokes up so much of Substack these days. Bravo!
Thank you, glad this hit the mark - I struggle with how to pin him down. Good and bad signs and that makes me nervous.
There is so much supposition based who is associated with whom and that doesn’t serve us. And it’s boring too because it’s just repeated ad nauseam.
Well, he did say protestors should be sent to volunteer in North Korea for a year or something. I'm always a little anxious when thinking about this. However, it's going to happen one way or the other. I guess I'd rather these two people than some others. I don't love any of it.
Like I said I am trying to sift through the various ideas he expresses, and while there are things that he says I agree with, I am not down with collective identity and “we have to act and not deliberate”.
I think hesitation and it anxiety over this is actually instinct telling us to evaluate rather than merely react.
in an earlier discussion today someone commented about being paralyzed by fear to which I responded that I’ll make up my own mind for myself, and wanting to evaluate is not fear by any stretch.
I agree with you. I am extremely grateful someone is looking.