“Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?” - Ursula Le Guin.
Somebody called the modern ideology—a principle that governs everyday life— "solutionism." Even existentialists still around have a solution: make your own.
We have one solution after another, glad to find problems. Patriots thrive on deporting aliens; conservatives blame liberals for c…
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