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Thank you for this fresh perspective and insight. My first reading of this resonated deeply as my own family’s experiences across five generations in America were in many respects mirrored in your reexamination of our collective history over and beyond the 20th century. Our family’s experiences were profoundly influenced by the Marxist overthrow and enslavement of our ancestral homeland; an act of chaos making to impose a new order of oppression and control in the name of western utilitarian Utopianism. South Korea is South (as opposed to North) for essentially the same reason.

My hope is to see you explore the question of what value systems the chaos makers are seeking to undermine and destroy. The reasons for their malevolence goes beyond mere wealth accumulation and naked power; they have had both for quite some time already and need not seed chaos in quite the manner they have been doing for well over a century. Indeed, they might have chosen an entirely different ethical path and maintained their privileged status BY BEING WORTHY OF IT AND ACTUALLY EARNING IT. There is a significant difference between true noblesse oblige and its false equivalent philanthropathy.

I suspect I will find further resonance in Hidden Figures as well although our particular inconvenient demographic hasn’t yet been celebrated in any similar way.

I look forward to your next Stack. May all that is good uphold and sustain you in your endeavors.

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