Thanks! ☺️

Thank you!! ☺️

I see! I think clear prose can be lively; I just think a lot of academic authors mistake lifelessness for clarity.

On the second thing, yes; I take your point.

Interesting. I wonder why I seem to think that clarity is the opposite of liveliness and that obscurity necessarily comes with richness and complexity. I don’t think either of those things. But I wonder why I *seem* to. 🤔

This is very honest and deep.

Does it soften your contempt at all to think about how deeply unhappy all those guys seem?

Haha I hope not either! And I really appreciate your thoughtful response.

Thank you! I hope you like it.

Yes, looking forward to meeting you too!

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Yes, when I'm being a grown up in real life I take the democratic peace theory pretty seriously--just not when I'm having the worst brought out of me by social media (and probably having my biggest, albeit tiny, effect on democratic politics).

Instead it empowers them with the Will of the People: the most wretched force on Earth.