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So many lessons unlearned.
a dictatorship sustained by a reliable flow of consumer goods and a degree of targeted genocide.
They shrank and tightened into a bitter kernel contained within the shell of the greater matter, the earth’s heating, the disappearing animals and plants, the disrupted interwoven systems of oceans, land, air and life, beautiful and sustaining entanglements barely understood as we forced change upon them.
nostrum
things will never be as good as we hoped or as bad as we feared.
He was ill at heart.
Hard not to feel that the judgement about to be delivered was moral, not medical. Was he a good or bad person? The heart in question picked up pace. This was a school moment. His future was in the balance.
