Stepping Back From the Precipice
angry with our fellow citizens, this sets off a chain reaction. It means we can’t understand what is really going on. In those circumstances, we can’t solve our collective challenges. This means our wider problems will get worse. As a result, the society won’t just feel more dangerous—it will actually be more dangerous.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Policies that had worked for the previous fifty years stop working, causing significant harm instead. A political and cultural crisis arises, and what had been regarded as common sense is discarded. The political elite insists that there is nothing wrong that couldn’t be solved by more of the same.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
“It has long been true,” he began, “that the greatest obstacle to the success of democratic socialism in the United States has been the extremism of some of its allies. Nothing could have exemplified this unfortunate fact more clearly than my colleague’s speech tonight. The propensity to damage the progressive cause by calling for the physical exte
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