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Peter's avatar

This is a well-researched and terrifying post: your conclusion is spot on: "...The house is not just messy. It is on fire. And no one is sure where the exits are..."

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Sande Ramage's avatar

Brilliant. I love best: "Perhaps this Parliament, this mess, is exactly what we deserve—not because we are inherently wicked, but because we are psychically unwell. Our collective inner life has been frayed by decades of meaninglessness disguised as progress." And that throughout you bring us back to the connectedness of all things.

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neil's avatar

This is the state of the collective west in a nutshell.

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Mobley's avatar

Careful. Are you suggesting we look to the East to build a bulwark against the threat of all that good in the West?

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Zoran Rakovic's avatar

East? Of course! We all need a good dose of zen to put up with all this :-)

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Mobley's avatar

Marxist zen?

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