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illustration from The New Yorker by Ben Wiseman

A bunch of red hands point at a bunch of blue hands in unison. But the blue hands point at each other, or don't even bother pointing ecc1b6e19afc9545.jpg statues of ancient greek navel gazers

omphaloskepsis

contemplating one's navel as an aid in meditation

"navel gazing" today means self-absorbed purists

a derogatory term for excessive, self-indulgent introspection, over-analyzing one's own internal problems without taking action against external problems, even extremely dire ones, because one is petrified into analysis paralysis out of some absurd quest for impossible perfection and idealization

a huge problem with the contemporary left f2e385b230f01f0b.webp cbd367093d0d4698.mp4 A meme image of former Soviet countries celebrating over the grave of the Soviet Union d4f9d39b6d3a72fc.jpg A man and a woman ride a motorbike in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025 8bad8078721e1d4b.webp russia kills young girl and her mother in attack on ternopil

photo: ternopil secondary school no. 27 395e9de093be5356.jpeg JD Vance asks 'why don't Ukraine and Russia stop killing each other and start trading'
Story by Simon Hamalienko β€’ 23h β€’ 2 min read

Vice President JD Vance
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