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cachukis

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12. I agree with everything you said, although it was a
Fri May 15, 2026, 09:28 PM
Friday

quick read.
You are so right in that all of it is ongoing. Marc Elias, for one, is on it. I am not. I give some money.
We are in a philosophical dilemma. The poison dilemma.
The ball is rolling. We can slow it down but we are not going to stop it never mind push it back uphill.
We are, in our own ways, managing a predicament.
We are not in the Gloucester fishing boat in the Perfect Storm. But we are in a storm, as it were, of our own making.
I would suggest working to slow down the ball as our best bet. Planning for the next catastrophe, like the Dutch acknowledging they cannot dike all of what's exposed to a rising tide.
We don't do that even though everyone could learn from them. Most of us are waiting for calamity, witless.
Many of us have lost the moral clarity of being reliant for others as they would be for us until a calamity.
We are on the edge of calamity.
Climate, trumpism, AI, Oligarchism, Climate, Consumption, Money, Climate, Technology. Climate.
We are being tested by ourselves. Are we up to it?
Many will be. Worry about those who won't, who could have, had they had, the connections.

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