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Peyton R's avatar

Yes, Peter Burnett. I would recommend the interview with Samantha Power, the incoming USAID Administrator, on Pod Save America last week. It's available on YouTube, I believe.

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Oops - that's Pod Save the World.

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Peter Burnett's avatar

Yes, I've just looked. Thank heavens! What more can I say?

Except that reports of the activities of the We Wuz Robbed Party still sound more like the kind of news we might expect from the most world's newest and most unstable countries. And they're still talking of their bargain-basement Elmer Gantry and the Almighty in the same breath...

Only recently did I find that my contention about collective madness had been expressed better than I could ever put it by no less than Friedrich Nietzsche:

тАЬIn individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.тАЭ

This is worse than Covid 19, but it's the combination between virus and delirium that's far more troubling. As Samantha Power put it:

тАЬYou can be shocked but not be surprised at the same timeтАЭ.

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