How Can I Avoid Becoming "THAT GUY" in My Old Age?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-11-24 We, by @delong braddelong.substack.com/p/how-can-i-av…
First: As I grow older, I find myself under increasing pressure to become THAT GUY. You know:
"I do not know what Rome is coming to. Today a boy... 1/
First: As I grow older, I find myself under increasing pressure to become THAT GUY. You know:
"I do not know what Rome is coming to. Today a boy... 1/
... prostitute costs more than a sword and a jar of fancy imported fish sauce more than a spread of land or yoke of oxen can plow in a day. The Young's spend all their time learning Greek and acting in theatricals, and they even allow their wives to embrace them in public... 2/
...—even when Iuppiter Optimus Maximus is not hurling his thunderbolts. What is to become of us?…"
Or:
"The JuiceBox Mafia has no conception of how hard we have worked to preserve space for tough-minded, effective liberalism in a neoliberal age. The JuiceBox Mafia has... 3/
Or:
"The JuiceBox Mafia has no conception of how hard we have worked to preserve space for tough-minded, effective liberalism in a neoliberal age. The JuiceBox Mafia has... 3/
...no conception of how dangerous it is for center-left politicians to pander to grievance-mongers or dictator-apologists whose principal real complaint is that the leaders they followed were just not very competent at the social practices of governance and war…" 4/
...How can I avoid becoming THAT GUY? 5/END
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