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IMO this is just as good as great reset for dummies.

You nailed it - divide-and-conquer extends all the way to the top of the pigpile - no exceptions. Which is what I think brings the whole pigpile down.

'a classic American soul-wobbly child who is very rude to the parents over not getting the toy he wants—but applied to intellectual toys." So true! but between the childhood vaccine schedule, the magic rectangle, helicopter parenting and tiktok, these children are the most infantilized generation in history (and not all of them are, some of them are incredibly smart). How do we get the slow ones to run when they can't even crawl and they can't get off the phone long enough to learn how? I'm all for being as kind and supportive as we can be, but not if I have to join Facebook to do that.

Maybe our interests are best served by building bridges with those who aren't stuck in an alternate universe? Supposedly it only takes 10-15% of a population to generate a seismic shift

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So sorry for taking a few hours to respond! I saw your comment briefly before going to bed, and then was looking for it by scrolling and found it!! Hooray.

Thank you!!!!! I am smiling from ear to ear, in the literal sense of it. :)

"Maybe our interests are best served by building bridges with those who aren't stuck in an alternate universe?" I think that is it!!! I think we need those bridges because without those bridges, we are just stuck in an echo chamber and a chest-beating competition that disguises the pain. We need to take a deep breath, forgive ourselves, forgive others, and be adults in the happy sense of it (and no, the world is not going to drop everything and start listening but little by little, slowly, very slowly, we get somewhere by not being afraid of loving this world (our ourselves, as a beautiful piece of the puzzle)!!

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ha!

and you are this era's emily roebling!

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Thank you!!! :) I typed several jokes about bridges and selling them and then backspaced!!

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