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\nSarah Paine. Source: YouTube. The interview from which the screen shot was made is here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Every day and every hour, idiots and fascists flood the zone with you-know-what<\/em>. The media scramble to deal with it and even manage to expose a lie or two occasionally. But the zone is still flooded with you-know-what, and there’s hardly any bandwidth left over for anything else. <\/p>\n Consequently those of us who know you-know-what when we hear it not only have to do a lot of filtering for the sake of our sanity. We also have to work extra hard to find, and hear, the voices of those who actually know something about the world and whose purpose is to improve the world rather than to rape it.<\/p>\n Sarah Paine is one of the wisest voices out there. Reading about her background in the Wikipedia article<\/a> reminds us that there are still people who spend their lives learning and teaching rather than making deals, lying, and ripping people off.<\/p>\n Paine has been making herself available for YouTube interviews<\/a> lately. Almost a million people have watched that interview in the last two months, so people are paying attention. She also had an article in Foreign Affairs<\/em> last fall. Foreign Affairs<\/em> is behind a paywall, but there is a PDF of the article available here: By Land or by Sea: Continental Power, Maritime Power, and the Fight for a New World Order<\/a>. The article is a must-read about how MAGA, if not stopped, is leading the United States toward impoverishment and collapse. <\/p>\n The American intelligentsia have mostly been pushed into the margins today. Fortunately they’re doing their best to continue a real conversation in venues such as YouTube and Substack, where they are needles in a haystack waiting for you to find them. We can dream of a day when we take the microphone away from idiots. Until then we’ll have to work a little harder.<\/p>\n