Category: Sociology
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if the house keeps winning they’ll just burn it down
One of the previous year’s surprisingly difficult lessons has been the need to stop considering reportage from the US as in any way representative of a baseline for circumstances elsewhere.
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this oppressive cardinality
They were nonetheless your superiors, and you their inferiors—and that relationship was reinforced tirelessly by the structures and rituals of the place.
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generational hangover
There are also moments when a widely-shared world ends not with a neat denouement, but rather with a slurry of lazy tropes and cliches.
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and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
Like the faerie folk, once you’ve learned to see them, you always will—and also like the faerie folk, they can see that you can see them, and that marks you out for whatever blessings or curses they may choose to bestow upon you.
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two verbs in one
The verb in question is “to speculate”