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Finished this, and torn between 1) feeling better that the broligarch behavior is not just a recent (i.e. post-Trump) phenomenon (buy elections! spread right wing hate! cut university funding! cut funding for the world's poorest!) or a seat of the pants thing they're making up as they go, and

Ben Fry@benfry.com

Felt obligated to pick this up just as a thumbs up to the author for its title, but I'm half an hour in and we already have this banger from Paulina Borsook: “As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”

Ben Fry

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2) …learning that it's *not* just some random thing; that it's a couple decades in the making, and now we have to live with the consequences of these fringe ideas because the people who adopted them have billions of dollars.

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Ben Fry

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Perhaps more simply, I'm just not sure I'm more comfortable with the method version or the madness version of what's happening right now.