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"Youth" is served

There are some terrific Obama quotes in the new Atlantic interview, among them:

“You’re in high school and you see all the cliques and bullying and unfairness and superficiality, and you think, ‘Once I’m grown up I won’t have to deal with that anymore.'" 

“And then you get to the state legislature and you see all the nonsense and stupidity and pettiness. And then you get to Congress and then you get to the G20, and at each level you have this expectation that things are going to be more refined, more sophisticated, more thoughtful, rigorous, selfless, and it turns out it’s all still like high school. Human dynamics are surprisingly constant.”

I kind of love that the former president (by far the best one in my lifetime, and probably since FDR) is now essentially saying, "Most people are fucking stupid and puerile jerks, and this is a really big part of why we're so screwed – because adults with enormous responsibilities are shockingly incapable of consistently acting like adults and just doing their damn jobs." For a guy who famously campaigned on "HOPE," and still ostensibly adheres to that optimistic vision in his more official speeches, this is a very archly pessimistic vision of human nature! 

He's right –– and he's only getting sharper and more acutely perceptive with age. 

 2020 isn't all bad...

...I mean, this happened--like it, really, actually happened; objectively, in reality! And this did, too! Oh, and there have been some really good movies and music.