“I appreciate your truth telling, even though it does make me quite pessimistic

–“I appreciate your truth telling, even though it does make me quite pessimistic for the future.”–DittReLuacMer

Just FYI: The purpose of contrarian intellectuals is 1) to identify risks, 2) to encourage the polity to avoid them, 3) to propose solutions to risks that cannot be avoided, 4) and at least in my case suggest opportunities that might arise despite the determinism of those risks – so that lemons can be turned into lemonade.

Now, anyone can prattle about #1-2, few can imagine #3, and very very few of us #4. The simple reason being one needs an absurd amount of knowledge of multiple fields to do so. So that’s what I work on. 😉

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