Welcome back, Fathom — you have been sorely missed. Thank you for the deep grounding in this long-unfolding catastrophe. Indeed, it is because this disaster has been so long in unfolding that I am reluctant to call it a catastrophe…yet, the word is apt in other ways. In any event, it seems to me that you ended the article more abruptly than is your usual. Pointing out that the solution to being morbidly obese is simply to stop eating all those eclairs for snacks is simultaneously true and unhelpful. The wretchedness of the system, the pillocks in charge of system maintenance, and the calamitous state of affairs across so much of western society’s pertinent institutions are such that closing one’s ears to earnestly delivered lies is insufficient. We, as the saying goes, must stop the so-called elite from doing wrong because we surely cannot cajole them into doing right.
Welcome back, Fathom — you have been sorely missed. Thank you for the deep grounding in this long-unfolding catastrophe. Indeed, it is because this disaster has been so long in unfolding that I am reluctant to call it a catastrophe…yet, the word is apt in other ways. In any event, it seems to me that you ended the article more abruptly than is your usual. Pointing out that the solution to being morbidly obese is simply to stop eating all those eclairs for snacks is simultaneously true and unhelpful. The wretchedness of the system, the pillocks in charge of system maintenance, and the calamitous state of affairs across so much of western society’s pertinent institutions are such that closing one’s ears to earnestly delivered lies is insufficient. We, as the saying goes, must stop the so-called elite from doing wrong because we surely cannot cajole them into doing right.
Excellent analysis. Short and accessible to non-philosophers