Great company too

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.

Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

“But the civic body is anemic, the media fragmented, and the dopamine economy has rewired our survival instincts. We can’t panic, because panic requires presence. And presence requires attention.”

“The only way to stop it—the only way any society has ever had a chance—is to make people panic before the crisis reaches their doorstep. That means emotional shock, mass mobilization, discomfort. Democracy can’t survive on civility; it survives on adrenaline.”

“Our species evolved for adaptation, not alarm. We normalize the intolerable faster than we recognize it. We scroll through the fire until the Wi-Fi cuts out.”

Everyone apologize to Eddington, they called it.

In that the people most willing to compromise their values and adopt a vapid worthless and destructive belief system are the ones most likely to be adopted into the wealthy elites and thus get the most opportunities.

Missed you… but take whatever time you need