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Alexei Sorokin
Alexei Sorokin

Nov 20, 2020

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ercise the basic virtues of goodness, truth, compassion, wisdom, kindness, and concern. This most ancient of political theories — how strange that it’s turned out to be the… ruin, by way of indifference, fatalism, nihilism, selfishness, stupidity, brutality, and violence. They are unable to exercise the basic virtues of goodness, truth, compassion, wisdom, kindness, and concern. This most ancient of political theories — how strange that it’s turned out to be the most accurate…

How Many American Idiots Are There? 73 Million.
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umair haque

Umair, you are pretty good at exercising these virtues, by writing off 73m fellow human beings.

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A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day.

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day.

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