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I'm not a fan of this New Nihilism where concerned liberals determine that the whole damn system is broken if we can elect a clown and as big a fan of Paul Gilding as I am, he's got a Hugo Drax view of the world; there's a short li'l chapter in The Great Disruption where the world gets better and lots of problems are solved because countless millions die. He's sympathetic and he sees it as regrettable but also inevitable. That sort of eschatological viewpoint can be limiting. It's like the preppers - when you've got a basement full of guns and tuna, every crisis is "TEOTWAWKI."