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by Fricken 3372 days ago
I've got facts you can spin into whatever dumb shit you feel like believing. How we choose to direct civilization is less contingent on facts than beliefs. When our belief systems are as badly fractured as they are we can't do much of anything, we're a clusterfuck nation. Even our best people, armed with the best facts available can't predict the future, but a bad plan is better than no plan at all. Nobody is even on the same page anymore.

Our world is officially too complex for anyone to understand, and you expect the average voter to to engage critical thinking to positive effect? We just failed at that catastrophically. It's completely unrealistic, there's no evidence for it.

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I agree with you. I think I'm just more optimistic is all.