>>1020167 (past bread)
>And I wonder if the greatest deceit was to make us believe there were no more mysteries, no new frontiers, and only the box we find ourselves in to scrounge about for survival.
I've always been suspicious of "The End of History" by Francis Fukuyama. How could that possibly be true? Why would someone want us to think it is true? I think you may have stumbled upon the beginnings of an answer to those questions.
The last paragraph is significant. This comes off as soft disclosure couched in faux "reasonable skepticism". After all this neutral stance talk, author suggests with some confidence that we will know in a few days! Strange.
Hey JB, thanks for mainstreaming the concept of "kakistocracy", because that's what is being dismantled by POTUS. You're projecting.
$60B gets you a soft "2"? Something doesn't add up.
A net that captures things that they don't want to get out into the wild. The net is the "bad thoughts" filtering algo.
Also, think about trapeze artists who perform "without a net".
If you don't have a net, your mistakes are very costly and YOU pay the price.
If you have a net, you can make "mistakes" and be protected from paying the price.
Like a reverse dragnet.
A mirror image of a dragnet.
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