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Shay McInerney's avatar

I'm left wondering what happens to such people when there cause creases to grant them the attention they crave.

The ageing process feels somewhat similar. Things that you shouted from the rooftop to attack or defend become just noise to a younger generation.

There's a story I came across about the fall of the Berlin wall. It's about an officer comforting one of his men who was crying. If the wall could just go like that, what was the point of his life as a border guard.

I think that's what awaits these people. A long, imuno compromised aging of irrelevance.

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J. P. Bruce's avatar

'Cult' is the word for it. I have observed educated and intelligent people I used to admire become apoplectic at the mere mention of Donald Trump's name and the suggestion that maybe he was not the worst US president in recent memory.

But then we are told that 3rd-level educated people poisoned their own children in Jonestown because their 'leader' told them to. Cults have been around for a very long time but this is the first time I've seen so many people either advocating lunacy or at least going along with it.

We are truly living in bizarre times.

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