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Smoke Signals's avatar

Superb piece of writing, Don 👍 I'm embarrassed to admit I spent the last 15+ years of my life duped into believing that a pole shift was literally just about to happen (I still think it is plausible but I no longer view any content related to this subject) due to a giant rogue planet transiting through our solar system. I saw all the signs and believed that the apocalypse was imminent every single year. Of course it hasn't happened and I lost all credibility among friends and family as a result. Also, I never bothered to apply myself in any real way in life or to make any future plans. So now I'm 40 and have no idea what I should be doing with my life, having wasted most of it thus far already. Anyway I forget what the hell point I was making. Sorry for the rant. Thank you again for your writing 🙏

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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

H. L. Mencken - Decades ago.

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