gratitude ... curiosity … humility ... civility

Virginia, USA
Joined October 2018
Perhaps this is what we see happening (not coincidentally) in the final S4 episodes of 'The Diplomat'?
When I say that women lack the concept of an honorable enemy, this is what I’m talking about. Obviously a lot of the Democrats’ new vindictiveness is Trump derangement, but the Great Feminization is part of the story, too. Men understand that the other guy is a professional just like me, and we should have an open fight by fair rules and both go home at the end of the day. For women, conflict isn’t over until the other side is gone and they never have to talk to them again. Men believe in hierarchy, so a fight is about establishing dominance within the hierarchy and making the other guy subordinate. Women don’t, everything is egalitarian and consensus-driven, so if you do get conflict, the only possible outcome is total exclusion from the group. It makes sense that the Democratic Party is abandoning old-fashioned ideas about honorable conflict as it becomes more dominated by women.
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In S4 'The Diplomat' has veered sharply into soap opera.
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Who is 'The Functional Melancholic' on YouTube?
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keep hearing something really big is going to happen, i'm 77, move it along please
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Anyone here get an early look at William T. Vollman's M1 Abrams tank stopper?
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Seems to be an accelerating accumulation of violent and bizarre happenings everywhere. Is it real or the algorithm?
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Me and brother in the Adirondacks, 1955
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Turned 77 yesterday and not sure how much longer I'm prepared to wait for something big to happen.
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Wendell Berry, 2004, speaking to the Kentucky Environmental Quality Commission
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I want Wendell Berry to read me back home.
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so many shiny objects
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Thank you, Justin.
This is lunacy. If he builds it, it should be torn down by the next administration. Stop transforming America into a dystopian police and surveillance state.
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My skepticism about anything that reaches me from a digital source is growing exponentially.
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Don't agonize over where to start reading. It really doesn't matter. @countyhwy
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I feel I've lived long enough but still want to stick around to see what happens next.
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I've decided to become an Inactivist.
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I don't pretend to know what should happen to Lindsay Clancy, but I don't think she should be allowed to walk freely among the rest of us.
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The Kennedy speech in Dallas confirms my belief that party politics is irrelevant to the question of who runs this country.
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9/11/2001, 9:00am We were at our jobs, all within 20 miles of the Pentagon. My son in Reston, VA. Me in Silver Spring, MD. My wife in Crystal City, 1 mile away, and scheduled for a weekly meeting later that morning in the Pentagon. The meeting was cancelled.
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