Samuel Moyn
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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I can immediately navigate to something that matches what I'm feeling.
Doing the mini, doing the wordle.
I'm surprised you said that Mitch McConnell seemed to die.
A lot of us are not sure he is alive.
I think there's a deep existential reason to retain power, quite apart from the old saying that power corrupts, and anyone who's powerful wants to keep their power.
It's that as we age, we face mortality.
The shadow of death hangs over us our entire lives.
We're starting in hard.
That's good.
Well, but it's... I think there's no way to explain the retention of power as we age, except...
in the face of decline to deny it.
But then there are other reasons.
I think we get used to a sense of our significance in our vocation or our job, especially when one's in the news so often, when one is instrumental to making policy, and that's a powerful drug.
And it's hard to imagine weaning oneself from it if one doesn't have to.
I think there's something universal, and that's the fear of decline and death, which I think is baked in.
I wouldn't want to scapegoat the boomers who were kind of in the right place at the right time.
They benefited from something new, which is that we don't just enjoy long lives, almost all of us, but doctors have succeeded in making us high functioning till near the end, they coined it.
a phrase for it called compression of morbidity, saving death for the end, rather than having us decline.
And then there are American features that have less to do, I think, with the boomers and much more with the incumbency in office our politicians benefit from.
After all, if you look across the water,
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