<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoPlainText, li.MsoPlainText, div.MsoPlainText
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
span.PlainTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Plain Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Plain Text";
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoPlainText">Glen writes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">< And I've heard people talk about *engaging* with Trumpists and trying to tease apart whatever good or bad the ecology associated with Trump has done or not done. But I fail every time I try. How do you crack open that layered chitin
an Ismist accretes around their self without killing them? ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I read this <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-is-a-distraction-from-the-real-one">
article</a> yesterday, and I noticed the author was from the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. They\u2019ve suspended charitable giving because, yeah, it is
<a href="https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/03/top-colleges-took-in-at-least-60-million-from-family-that-owns-purdue-pharma-as-opioid-lawsuits-piled-up/">
that</a> one. There is something clearly <a href="https://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/opioids/opioid-summaries-by-state">
wrong</a> in middle America. Opioids haven\u2019t provided the fix but it seems clear there is a hunger for something. Maybe it is a simple as a job with some dignity, or perhaps another intervention like easy access to antidepressants could help. It seems
clear there is no possibility of persuasion. One idea would be large, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/california-fires-and-pge-toxic-debt/600979/">
needed</a> infrastructure investments that would move workers to other parts of the country, increase their relative wealth (adjusting for cost of living), and break them out of their provincial habits. On the other side are various forms of boycott. For
example, city workers in San Francisco can\u2019t attend meetings in some states due to their stance on various civil rights issues. If it ever got Republic of Gilead bad, then nothing is off the table.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Marcus <o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>