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You've noticed them hiding, too? Maybe this whole thing took a bit of steam out of the collective intellectual ego. It takes balls to be loud about being smart, after all. I'm suffering from that myself. We're not so smart as we think we are, but I still find an active role more attractive than spectator or referee.
We should be getting different ideas, but somewhere in the back of our minds we should also be mindful of the difference between idea and ideology. As much as it pains me to say it, there are just as many wrong answers on the left as there are on the right. The only difference is that we on the left aren't as good at organizing wrong people into a movement, which I see as a good thing.
Neeways, the g20 will likely come and go. While it would be nice to hear something new, Sarkozi's statement kinda set the tone for me. I remember the first time I heard about the "10 word answer", on the West Wing, thinking it was a bad idea to put Bartlet in a box like that when he could say a lot more. I'm left wondering if perhaps the French leadership have a bit more to say than just "we need more regulation", but are concerned about confusing people. If only they didn't think we were stupid, what a thing that would be.
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