Yea that tracks for me too. Well said.

I appreciate your sincerity. Please accept mine:

What do you think the vast majority of people care about?

Did you… read the Criticism section like I mentioned?

The neoliberal ones. Check out the Criticism section.

country

*planet

It doesn’t—sorry I didn’t make that clearer. I lump the conversation about emigration in with looking for a better life. I meant the article to contribute to the quality of life angle. Hope that helps.

Some relevant words on the UK from an energy economist here.

Speaking as a Canary user, what am I missing?

400mg theanine and/or 2g Magtein. Melatonin didn’t work for me and I dislike the effect of cannabis and its derivatives on my body.

Icelandic chic.

The article says it was slivered onions from a single supplier servicing 3 distribution centers in and around Colorado and Nebraska.

How much acreage does it take to feed a person? How does it scale?

Detailed in Freaknomics where Romania is used as an example.

“I don’t feel that I need to explain my art to you, Warren.”

OP said wrong answers only.

I imagine for some of those folks being a part of a group that demands nothing other than your agreement is better than belonging to a group demanding a truthful relationship to the facts and their impact.

I appreciate that your answer was something other than violent revolution or its buddies. Thank you for elaborating!

If you’re willing to share: where would you go?

Yes, the “fascization” of the US government has been unfolding for decades.

To make a leap from that to an inevitability that “destroying the system to start over” is the only cure…

Well, isn’t the cure is worse than the disease?

What are the practicalities your presumptive solution hand-waves away?

Insurance and reinsurance markets, for example, provide regional/national/global stability for business to happen in the face of mass catastrophe. Medicare and Medicaid provide millions of people with healthcare.

These details, and literally thousands like them, make up the everyday function of government—even if they are currently not working in some places or not working as well as we’d like in many others!

If you’re actually committed to the welfare of millions of ordinary people, then your position has got to be more nuanced than “destroy the system!”

What are we destroying? What are we replacing it with? What kind of work are we doing to ensure a reasonable transition? Who is the we that is organizing toward a new vision? How do we work with opposing forces inside and outside of our camp?

All of those questions fall under the banner of politics and the answers are constrained by the agendas of the participants engaging with the existing system.