Some of us have more appetite for conflict than others. 1/

In our current timeline, Krako and Bela end up taking over the Federation

Thinking about social media as a selective "amplifier".
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I am not hopeful.
But I still have some hope.
I believe we've crossed a line that we cannot cross back. I do not know where forward leads us (although the next years will be chaotic and destructive).
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Thinking about "progress".
I don't know how common it is, but I've long felt tension between the worldviews of "progress" (the "arc of history") and the static "all is vanity" picture. 1/