I’ve had my head in the sand since the election caused a fucking mental breakdown. I’m meditated, exercised, and gotten myself together enough to take a peek to see how much of the country is on fire (an unexpectedly literal comment). My first look was at your email.
FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!
Excellent interview. Reading the thoughts of intelligent people is about the most reassuring thing happening now. Thank you for sending this out into the world.
Thank you for this amazing interview! Really sheds a lot of good if scary clarity on the moment. Ans I know this is a hard time to be optimistic, but I think there’s a more positive framing to “things will be irreparably damaged.”
The way I see it, things will be irreparably changed, but it’s entirely possible for us to come out of this literal disaster and (I’m begrudgingly quoting Biden here) build back better. For example, we’ve never had particularly strong ethics laws, in part because they were written under the assumption that the president would be an ethical person. What if this forces a real reckoning about the need to have serious and punitive laws in place that are enforced by an outside counsel (similar to how the Fed maintains independence)? I’m just spitballing in the comments section, but I’m trying to keep my hopes up that we will collectively come out of this mess having learned from it …
I’ve had my head in the sand since the election caused a fucking mental breakdown. I’m meditated, exercised, and gotten myself together enough to take a peek to see how much of the country is on fire (an unexpectedly literal comment). My first look was at your email.
FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!
Excellent interview. Reading the thoughts of intelligent people is about the most reassuring thing happening now. Thank you for sending this out into the world.
Thank you so much to both of you for this!
Thank you for this amazing interview! Really sheds a lot of good if scary clarity on the moment. Ans I know this is a hard time to be optimistic, but I think there’s a more positive framing to “things will be irreparably damaged.”
The way I see it, things will be irreparably changed, but it’s entirely possible for us to come out of this literal disaster and (I’m begrudgingly quoting Biden here) build back better. For example, we’ve never had particularly strong ethics laws, in part because they were written under the assumption that the president would be an ethical person. What if this forces a real reckoning about the need to have serious and punitive laws in place that are enforced by an outside counsel (similar to how the Fed maintains independence)? I’m just spitballing in the comments section, but I’m trying to keep my hopes up that we will collectively come out of this mess having learned from it …