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Yep, our comfort (soon to be eliminated) and ignorance dooms us. I keep asking my friends why they remain loyal to sports leagues raining (it's yellow, but it's gotta be rain, right?) on them. They think I am a paranoid conspiracy theorist, since what I tell them is not found on TeeVee news, the NYT, or The Economist.

The blue collar people (especially those from Eastern Europe) I come across in my work are far more aware of the evil enveloping us than the "educated."

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They think I am a paranoid conspiracy theorist, since what I tell them is not found on TeeVee news, the NYT, or The Economist.

This is the fundamental problem. We are dealing with two sets of "facts". Until this is fixed, we will going to continue to talk past each other.

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I am "paranoid conspiracy theorist" and I still love football and soccer.

We are all gonna die anyways, might as well enjoy life for the here and now, because sure as shit, this here middle-aged, middle-level bureaucrat isn't going to be able to change anything in the big picture.

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