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Abstract rights like liberty and equality turn out to be rather cold comfort.

That's a funny thing to say when the 'explosion' (implosion?) of Western values (in the he Western world) could best be characterized by the steady retreat of liberty and the rapidly forming divide between rich and poor.

If you weren't on the rich side, I can honestly see how you would want to go back to when everybody was modernist and things were great. You know, to make things great again.



    "Who's that then?"
    "I dunno. Must be a king."
    "Why?"
    "He hasn't got shit all over him."
Indeed. Pining for the days when most people were serfs seems misguided at best.


When have most people not been serfs?




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