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   Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 01:34:28 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

   I think of The West Wing as speculative fiction, no less fantastical than interstellar travel or a post-scarcity economy.

   It’s a What-If about America: what if the empire were as benevolent and high-minded as the propaganda insists.

   What if our leaders were gripped more by principle and service than self interest.

   This is a valuable thought experiment, but I’ve often worried that the work was misinterpreted as an unrealistic blueprint for behavior in our much less principled universe.

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     Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 07:27:12 JST Danilo Campos 🇵🇷

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly bingo!

     It’s simply a World That Can’t Be, for important reasons that no amount of optimism can overcome