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Yeah, there's something about American politics that make it almost seem it's always in crisis mode. You don't really get that here. Sure, you get the political outcries (recently it was the decision to get rid of the census long form) here, but you don't tend to have leadership that fucks things up. There is too much accountability at stake.
Do you know what happens here when the government fucks up badly enough? It usually means we go to the polls to pick a new one.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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