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The Monster Discloses Himself
process of accreditation, usually entailing many years of higher education. Persons in authority have had to jump through hoops of fire to achieve their lofty posts—and feel disinclined to pay attention to anyone who has not done the same. Lasting authority, however, resides in institutions rather than in the persons who act and speak on their
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a state managed by experts dedicated to solutions without an ideology would do for the country what it did for the war: it would breed success. But of course, this became a principle, the principle became a belief, and the belief became an ideology. The ideology created a class who felt entitled to govern and who were believed to be suitable to
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
We’re definitely in a big reordering of what’s in-group and out-group. There’s a funny energy where many powerful people are revealing themselves to have had no actual convictions in the past, or simply that their convictions just mirror whatever’s convenient for their power and self-interest. And you know, we’re in a moment where that’s being
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