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RickRickRick's avatar

The way I’ve put it when encountering this “political science” — “There is no fucking pendulum.”

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foofaraw & Chiquita(ARF!)'s avatar

However, there is ample evidence of a "pit"...

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RickRickRick's avatar

😆

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Andre Shumpert's avatar

Thank you for presenting your analysis. I’m inspired to learn more concerning cyclical measures of cowardice (or may I refer to it as unresolved fear) and its scientific impact on morality v immorality. If there is more on this please share. You may be on to something here.

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jamie mack's avatar

Huh. Yeah, i have an interest in a few cyclical theories, the fourth turning and the boom bust cycle of capitalism among them. But this weird little ‘cycle’ of three names and an ellipsis makes about as much sense as South Park's Underpants Gnomes.

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LM's avatar

I think the underlying problem is that Silicon Valley is full of douchebags.

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W. A. Lawrence's avatar

This is remarkable work, precise, fearless, and morally lucid. The way you show language becoming a shield for cowardice is masterful. Reducing cruelty to suboptimal behavior is the purest form of surrender, and you captured it with the clarity serious readers crave.

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Whit Blauvelt's avatar

Outside of astronomy, and our circulatory system, cycle theories are a common, lazy way out, whether they're for betting on the stock market, or on the collapse of civilizations, or (as here) on political direction. There's variation in trends, which rarely go on forever, but it is rarely akin to day-and-night nor a circle 'round the sun. There is no law of nature to bend every variety of change into cyclic form.

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Mike Brock's avatar

And my belief that history has no direction, is one of the reasons I'm not a socialist. Which I get into more deeply in the piece I'm still editing for tomorrow.

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