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Susan J Carkin's avatar

A great start to your essay series on one of the most important set of issues in our world. Looking forward the the remaining 4. Thank you.

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Cruising Economist's avatar

Astute adults are readily able to identify and ignore a "snake oil" sales pitch. Tragically it seems astute adults are trending toward a rare breed in Western countries. The dumbing down of society is shocking and it poses an existential peril to every innocent human being, whether they understand as much or not. This is of course why power lusting authoritarians are always anxious to indoctrinate, thereby intellectually debilitating, vulnerable children.

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