There hasn't been mail to this list for a while now, makes me wonder if
it's just me, or there's something wrong on the other end.

I thought of sending something relevant, just to see if it goes through,
but nothing really came to mind.

Only thing perhaps is a recent talk with a few friends on the nature of
authority, their argument being that power hierarchies is what made
humanity safer. That people in general don't want to assume
responsibility, and so passively follow a leader.

They weren't concise on why, but among the reasons were ignorance,
indifference, lack of aspiration, and the like. Thinking about it now,
it strikes me how they didn't mention fear.

It makes me feel sad - I think now they were talking not about "people
in general", but themselves, perhaps unknowingly, perhaps in a detached
fashion.

It's also hard to argue about these things with other westerners. We
think too much that everybody is like us, and even those who like to
travel tend to praise what they've known for ages, once they're settled
back in.

The "nature of authority" and similar phrases are, of course, oxymorons
I use here for lack of words and memory to reproduce the discussion
verbatim.

Anyway, just wanted to test if this list thingie still works, and
thought it's best to have some entropy in the message. Now, repeat after
me:

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consectetur adipiscing elit,
sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt
ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...