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Mar 12, 2023Liked by Emanuel Pastreich

How much did Wells Fargo Bank loose last week ? At what point to people start waking up to what’s going on here in America ? Would any of this be happening if the 2020 election was a legit election?

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Mar 15, 2023·edited Mar 15, 2023

When people can't agree and won't back down fighting is all that is left. It is part of the human condition. It is pointless to argue against it. We need to fight back by any means necessary. It is either that or accept enslavement. Much like the USA in Ukraine. They gave us and Russia no option.

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Dutch:

Failliete banken, voedselcrisis, gedwongen vaccinatie en onze grimmige toekomst. “Deze keer heeft het virus het geld zelf geïnfecteerd”

https://www.frontnieuws.com/failliete-banken-voedselcrisis-gedwongen-vaccinatie-en-onze-grimmige-toekomst-deze-keer-heeft-het-virus-het-geld-zelf-geinfecteerd/

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Emanuel, hello, Roberta Kelly. The "art" maybe a solution? China & Cambodia, do you recall? Contact Lew Rockwell & he can connect about art etcetera.

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We’re even past Ayn Rand.

There is such a thing as “too late”.

Atlas is gonna fall over with myocarditis.

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Yes. “To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement … Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus … thereby it becomes its enemies.” - Philip Dick. Dick suggested some ways to deal with this, in his fiction. So, In The Man in the High Castle, it's the act of speaking honestly and behaving authentically, even though the effects of that are utterly unremarkable. In Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, creating pottery for yourself, unbeknown to anyone else, emerges as pretty much the greatest thing.

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When facing problems that overwhelm me, I remind himself that the assumption that they are solvable can be wrong. Is that a disastrous lack of faith in humanity, without which nothing can be done? Oh, it's that your or my concept of 'a solution' often contains implicit, unconscious assumptions that are utterly foolish, and it is these assumptions that are our greatest enemy. Spengler ridiculed the human tendency to provide a "should" type of answer to social situations, and instead offered describing what is. That happens to overlap with the general experience of solving math problems : when the attempts to directly attack the problem fail, merely clarifying to ourselves what's in front of us shows to be the way forward.

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