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On the Willingness of Past Selves to Let You Buy Them a Beer

Started by Will Wilkinson · 1 year ago

Steven Berlin Johnson writes:

But sitting here at forty, for whatever reason, I’m imagining it the other way: would 1985 Steven have happily had a beer with the current model? I think he would, and that the pair of us would have hit it off. That’s one measure of success, right? Your continuity with your past [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • "the point of personal continuity is to solve assurance problems...."

    Yap.
  • I wonder if the 21 year old Hillary Clinton would be willing to have a beer with the 60 year old version of herself. Can you imagine what the yound campus lefty ideologue and self-styled intellectual would make of a woman who was reduced to trying to get all the support of "hard working white people" in West Virginia, and throwing back shots in rural Pennsylvania? How did this girl from Wellesley become the self styled voice of the working class, fighting against the college educated? I wonder, now that she has lost, if she looks back and wonders how it all came to that.

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