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David Marshak's avatar

In the post that Eisenstein published in 2023 when he announced that he was joining Kennedy's campaign, he explicitly described his inner process of loss of meaning, diminution of hope that his work was accomplishing much, and possible withdrawal from public life. Then he explained what was essentially his self-seduction by Kennedy's interest in him. He was revealing both about his "dark night" and his attachment to a new hope for meaning. When people engage in this sort of radical revisioning of the meaning structures in their lives, they often spring from a loss of meaning into a new meaning structure. As someone who valued Eisenstein's previous work, I feel disgusted by him—but I also feel sorry for him—and for our loss of who he used to be.

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Malcolm Rands's avatar

I see western man’s movement to individual freedom, the freedom to be a selfish arsehole, as being the reason many alternative truth seakers have been found ungrounded. They have lost the village which supported us for millennia. It’s about me, not us.

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