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Catching up on some of my essential reading after a very lethargic period. Brilliant as always mate. As we plough on, I feel more and more, your solution is the only one, both philosophically, and practically speaking - NO. Speaking of philosophy - well said on this part: "don’t be looking to the classics or philosophers for succour". I have an ex colleague with whom I carried on a tiresome debate for some time before he either got bored with it or decided I was too much of a dangerous radical to be associated with - but he was always invoking Plato and those other long dead kiddie-fiddlers. I found it so trite and pompous. He would refuse to acknowledge any of the anti-establishment luminaries of our time, and continually hark back to the ancient pontifications of the Greeks. In the end I decided it was just his way of avoiding an honest debate, while also trying to laud it over me intellectually.

Keep up the good fight mate.

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