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Newsletter Nr. 1.172
Amsterdam, March 23, 2024


JUST A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX - JOSEPH DILLARD

Sometimes I wonder, “Do I live in a parallel universe?” What is this experience, of being appalled at being a citizen of a nation, the US, a product of a civilization, called the West, and a member of a worldview called integral? Is this rationality or diagnosable self-hatred?

What is this experience, of embracing all these things and the values they represent, notably including democracy, human rights, self-development, progress, spirituality, egalitarianism, and pluralism, while at the same time knowing I live in what is functionally an oligarchy, in which elites can take me into war, including a world-annihilating nuclear war, at any moment, without my consent?

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