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This.

This needs to be repeated early and repeated often no matter what non-abnormal ideology you subscribe to. In as many words.

If you consider yourself a kind, decent & some what enlightened person and you do not procreate, in all likelihood the unkind or less kind people will do the procreating on your behalf. Mind you I did not even use the word tolerant which implies some measure of altruism; I'm merely saying kind & decent.

I do not know why people much older than us do not repeat this mantra more often.

I do not understand what could belie such intransigence.

What is so offensive about saying that line?

Say it early say it often.

Is there a compounding pharmacy aggregator online youve found trustworthy?

Such a neat little tool! I shall use it and share it. Clever idea using the map to simultaneously display words. Small feature but hugely piques the interest of the user.

I was waiting for someone to sneak in a anti-car angle into this and presto what have you ! Haha

While we are on the subject, does anyone know of a super high quality repeatedly microwave-able line of LIGHT and sturdy storageware?

I was waiting the whole time I read this to find a /s somewhere. Anywhere. Yikes.

I'm dismayed that no one so far has brought up a point that's begging to be made in these sorts of things.

While the point of the article has _some_ merit, there's also another equally valid contrary argument to be made.

Just because a book - however storied & fabled - exists out there, does not mean that you should strive to find some meaning, import or significant cogitable thought when one is not clearly and immediately present.

There's a whole industry of writers that exist to exclusively furnish meaning to the lofty thoughts of some distinguished authors, that that was simply never meant or not present in the authors own words. Sometimes the authors themselves invite and regale in this kind of festive chicanery. Sometimes not. But this sort of thing - far more than useful or warranted - does exist.

In other words some works of writing often fiction but not necessarily are just elaborate exercises in getting away with balderdash.

It pays to remember the enterprise of getting published in the past has not always been equitable as is the case today.

A virtual nobody off the street couldn't expect to even get his manuscript read by a publishing house, much less get published even for a limited run. So if you were already reputed or privileged or had the blessings of a wealthy house of patrons who bankrolled your previous works, you were more widely published and translated.

In other words far too many mediocre works of the past still get top billing, than they rightly deserve largely because no one called out their bullshit.

Yes, sometimes if you don't understand the author that is because the author never had the intentions of being understood in the first place or did not have much to say of value or import, however fleeting or ethereal or unyielding to lucid language, the authors thoughts were.

HN should buck this trend and not join in adulation.

This is absolutely fabulous - the simplicity of it and the opportunity it gives to novices like me, who are too often nonplussed by the Abletons and the Novations.

Great job resisting the urge to add bells and whistles !

Please elaborate on the likelihood that China (if not Russia) has shown the willingness to go all out and wage a nuclear war, whether or not Chinas hand is forced by Russia.

The Chinese despite appearances and false bravado have never really demonstrated their resolve to indiscriminately kill millions of foreigners ( say Americans and Brits for example )- now have they?

Don't war strategists have a pulse for these things? Some experts in the past decade have said the reason we deal with President Xi despite setbacks is because whoever will replace Xi is bound to be more ruthless and bloodthirsty than Xi.

Is this true? Could you elaborate on this?

Not in the least bit.

Far too many of these supposed greats works of literature get an easy pass from uncritical also-rans of the world, who just want to move on in the name of different-strokes-for-different-folks without ever calling out the bs for what it really is. I'm not saying there aren't valid detractors of these works - there are - but far too often they're drowned out.

Far too many of these works hide behind the crutch of 'fiction' to spew utter hogwash without making an ounce of sense to the regular, impartial and non-dyed-in reader.

Far too many of these books - when coupled with a lackadaisical populace in general who are more concerned about seeming non-fussy - get that stellar mythical hallowed status and lore.

I'm not saying that there are not enough people who genuinely get entranced with these works (although if you run that through a fine comb your results may vary) - its that the gatekeepers of education seem to be entirely made up of these uncritical clowns who will nod away in affirmation, decade after decade in cementing the undeserved status of these works.