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jackhammerkent.bsky.social

Humanist | Pragmatist | Humorist | Recovering misanthrope

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Even despots are constrained in the exercises of their power. They acknowledge this, but we don't. [In diplomacy with non-democratic actors in MENA], 'Maybe, despite appearances and titles, the interlocutor is not The Prince—it is The Leviathan.'

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Apropros of nothing in particular. By me in October last year: A eulogy for teleological liberalism "History is unfolding in the same chaotic and emergent way it always has—but we have failed to ensure that the idea of liberalism acts upon the world."

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Purpose- and meaning-driven worldviews and ideologies are ascending. But what if you're a person whose best estimate is that existence unfolds probabalistically and without any particular meaning, purpose or direction? Here are some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/jackhamm...

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Hell is sober karaoke.

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Consciousness creates riddles without solutions and then puts Age 2+ on the box.

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