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Polonius IV's avatar

In your previous Substack you asked us how we’ve become someone we didn’t expect to be. Your question prompted me to survey my drab collection of habitual gaffes, crusty vintage dogmas, and hobby projects of 'forced teaming.' Perilously late, the mist of ‘progressive’ pieties lifts and clears. The glare cuts hard, but it is better to squint into it. As I await this Sunday's episode of 'Disaffected,' it occurs to me, this clinches it: I'm past the dim decades of bully-appeasing, of not diagnosing the damaging fraudulence you analyze with such discernment. I've become someone unbamboozled enough to cue up ‘Disaffected’ each week. Bring on the parade of 'Borderline glasses': my rose-colored ones are in the trash. [Sun 9/10/23 8:45 pm EST ]

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Do Not Comply's avatar

Thank you for the call to get back to Old Normal, in whatever way we can manage to do so. Your story about the bike riding goslings rings very true. Children are over watched, overstretched, and completely underprepared for live outside of their McMansions. I loved riding bicycles around the city when I was little...it was pure freedom. No parents, no money, no schedule. We managed. We figured it out. We gained confidence in the process. I hope and pray for children now, and in the future....that they may have healthy ways to gain such life enriching skills.

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