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Moe Strausberg's avatar

I have lived in a number of aboriginal groups. If I may clear up a number of unwarranted stereotypes.There are tribes who speak few words and there are tribes that spend their time talking philosophy from the moment the snow starts to fall There are some who regard food as sustenance and some who enjoy talking about the origin of their foods for hours on end. There are Joe Fridays and Donald Trumps even among our many varied First Nations.

Hannah Arendt and John Ralston Saul are Socratics and brevity is not their claim to fame.

Some truths lend themselves to brevity others like the truths of Yuval Noah Harari take 70,000 years of preamble.

Sometimes we are lucky like when America wrote the preamble to the constitution in a few paragraphs to tell us the metaphysics of a new nation.

Sometimes we suffer because lawyers and politicians write libraries to try and destroy simple self evident truths.

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Mike Anderson's avatar

I am glad to hear there are self evident truths that do not rely on being shared

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