Regarding Jess Phillip's pronouncement: have you considered the possibility that her inflexible thinking isn't a bug, but rather a feature?
As Gary Saul Morson nicely explained in his essay titled *Leninthink* (in *The New Criterion*), such *party-mindedness* ensures the presence of the incompetent but sufficiently loyal apparatchik in dominant social positions (like being a *lawmaker*).
Not only it has entered into stagnation, we are now awaiting its collapse, before it ruins us further.
Regarding Jess Phillip's pronouncement: have you considered the possibility that her inflexible thinking isn't a bug, but rather a feature?
As Gary Saul Morson nicely explained in his essay titled *Leninthink* (in *The New Criterion*), such *party-mindedness* ensures the presence of the incompetent but sufficiently loyal apparatchik in dominant social positions (like being a *lawmaker*).