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Gwaihir's avatar

I used to have a dog that would look everywhere except where the squirrel was, probably because she was afraid to chase it. The same dog would hide under the bed anytime we cooked lamb, so she clearly had a lot of fear. That behaviour reminds me of most people. Fear and narrow mindedness are always a dangerous combination. And you are right, it does drive me crazy.

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Brent Calhoon's avatar

Agree with your entire essay. We can do something about the last sentence. It WAS driving me crazy in 2020-2022. It felt eerily similar to the two years of my life after I read The Creature from Jekyll Island in 2004. We live in the "knowledge economy" where everyone thinks the know so much, but understand next to nothing. Of the thousands of people I've chatted with about monetary economics, big pharma, or our federal government as epic money laundering machine, I have awakened only one (confirmed). That's an abysmal record. So I stopped trying. I avoid going crazy by treating cocksure ignorance as comedy. I focus instead on actions I can take to insulate myself and family from the consequences. Most of my energy goes into building my local business and expanding my local network to include people who actually understand things and still believe "work" is a verb.

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