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Vincent Andrew Black's avatar

I grew up with those people, and dropped out of college to go back to their lifestyle, which in my youth felt so tight knit and understandable. Conservatives have lost, scarily understandably , their sense of hope for the future... so many psychological identity anchors are getting nuked... as their financial independence circles the drain. A progressive mindset is fundamentally more at ease with a changing society... I think on a primal level ... one looks to the past and the other looks to the future.... and for many they no longer see their place .... and we hate deep down being useless or not wanted .... I think it’s that existential angst about a role in society and connection that is the real zeitgeist of the ad.... even more deeply troubling because although the ad is cheap political propaganda.... the existential issues are profound and instead of coming together to figure out how we’re gonna get through another industrial revolution - this one even scarier than the last in many ways - all we have is demonization and hatred of each other at the top. Empathy compassion unity if you’re out there please come to planet earth

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Jan Peppler's avatar

The humanities help us understand the human condition. We could all use more education in the humanities. ✅

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