/lit/ - Literature

>The various ties that bind us — a collective educational experience, adherence to the verdict of elections, integration and assimilation, sovereignty between delineated borders, a vibrant popular and shared culture, and an expansive economy that makes our innate desire to become well-off far more important than vestigial tribalism — all waned. Entering a campus, watching cable news, switching on the NFL, listening to popular music, or watching a new movie is not salve but salt for our wounds.

>In the absence of political, cultural, or social ecumenicalism, perhaps we can at least for now privately retreat to the old Hippocratic adage of “first, do no harm” to one another.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/divisive-political-issues-immigration-race-globalization/

Uncle Nick is mad. i know why. he's a hardcore man and he gives no quarter and shows no mercy. he's either the last true orthodox Marxist or the first true 21C-compatible new one. and about thirty million other adjectives. i wonder if he's mad at Hanson, who is otherwise pretty on-point with everything he writes, and frequently severe towards the same things that Land is severe towards - because he thinks at this point that conciliation is death.

gonna be a big day gents. historically Socrates was born in philosophically anarchic times, much as Laozi was. Chaos was always intellectually fecund. perhaps it is to be the same with BTC.