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Weirdly, American politicians are actually characters in a television sitcom in a higher mathematical dimension. None of the rest of us are, just the politicians.
It's as if the only TV show is Veep.
Probably closer to The Thick Of It at this point
You never see their particular strain of behavior/attitude anywhere else except on Broadway and upper management. There's a distinct breed of cartoon characters who make up the only class with means
Sitting atop the modern industrial hyperobject called 'civilization' gives people a very funny perspective.
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Think about this while looking at a picture of earth from space on the night side where all the roads and cities can be made out. You realize humanity is a super organism on a totally different level that puts to shame other social animals like ants, bees, termites, and certain rodents. It is just that unlike most other species on earth humanity forms a hyper-object that is hard to bring into focus. Feeling like one personally is 'the great man' at the head of this hyper object of an organism would make anyone start having grandiose delusions about their self worth even while intellectually knowing that if they abruptly disappeared, like with single cells in a multicellular organism, another human individual would for better or worse immediately shift into carrying out their social role.