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"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride." Anthony Bourdain


Generally, the people at the top aren’t sociopaths either. They’re just inside a giant machine they didn’t create. They see everything through the machine’s screen. How else would it work? But once you allow for this—and they for the reverse—they’re easy to get along with


Impossible to swallow pill Many or most European polities had strong proto-democratic/democratic institutions that were suppressed later, with the rise of centralised state Like, in the 16-18th c the role of elective institutions *massively* declined, with very few exceptions



This is beyond parody.












