Thinky things...

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"A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion; to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other. But if either comes to regard it as the natural food of the mind-- if either forgets that we think of such things only in order to be able to think of something else-- then what was undertaken for the sake of health has become itself a new and deadly disease."
                                  --C. S. Lewis