Hello Mike, just want to let you know how I love your clear-eyed work and admire how you can pull off a sobering , accurate-worded essay every few days. I am from Slovakia where we took the US-like path of insanity a bit earlier. We’ve been an experimental lab for russian cognitive (a.k.a. hybrid) warfare since 2013-14 and it’s more or less the same story in the US. Exploiting grievances, sowing social divide, diminishing social consensus and radicalizing various groups of population. The playbook is the same. On the note to your question at the end of the video - don’t do the daily stuff, there are many great authors doing the commentary of the everyday “traffic”, so to speak. (The Bulwark, Charlie Sykes, The Meidas Touch etc.) Your work helps me to grasp a broader context and understanding of this insane times. That’s your superpower, stick to it.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how to stay free in unfree times. To shift to feelings of fear and frustration and very close to feeling hate is really draining. I think about things all the time and as I know there are two sides to everything or ten sides even. Lately I feel lost and I thank you for making me be grateful for much in my life. I now feel the balance much like sitting on a teeter totter when I was a kid. Being held up in the air by a heavy pal too high to jump off is an angry frightening thing! I was up there about what is happening in our country and now I have more control and balance because I offset the bad by thinking of good things about our world! Love your presentations and all of your posts!
I agree. Do more of this. The philosophical invariably ties in with the day to day and puts it in a broader context. Yesterday I heard someone mention “Civic Ministry” - we need so much more of this and I see you as leading the charge. And yes, gratitude is a good place to start
Hello Mike, just want to let you know how I love your clear-eyed work and admire how you can pull off a sobering , accurate-worded essay every few days. I am from Slovakia where we took the US-like path of insanity a bit earlier. We’ve been an experimental lab for russian cognitive (a.k.a. hybrid) warfare since 2013-14 and it’s more or less the same story in the US. Exploiting grievances, sowing social divide, diminishing social consensus and radicalizing various groups of population. The playbook is the same. On the note to your question at the end of the video - don’t do the daily stuff, there are many great authors doing the commentary of the everyday “traffic”, so to speak. (The Bulwark, Charlie Sykes, The Meidas Touch etc.) Your work helps me to grasp a broader context and understanding of this insane times. That’s your superpower, stick to it.
I caught this live (at last!), I've been seeing your articles in my inbox for months and I'm so grateful you exist!
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on how to stay free in unfree times. To shift to feelings of fear and frustration and very close to feeling hate is really draining. I think about things all the time and as I know there are two sides to everything or ten sides even. Lately I feel lost and I thank you for making me be grateful for much in my life. I now feel the balance much like sitting on a teeter totter when I was a kid. Being held up in the air by a heavy pal too high to jump off is an angry frightening thing! I was up there about what is happening in our country and now I have more control and balance because I offset the bad by thinking of good things about our world! Love your presentations and all of your posts!
I agree. Do more of this. The philosophical invariably ties in with the day to day and puts it in a broader context. Yesterday I heard someone mention “Civic Ministry” - we need so much more of this and I see you as leading the charge. And yes, gratitude is a good place to start