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The Breaking Point

Once you escape the cave it's hard to go back.

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D.J. Byrnes
Jun 21, 2022
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In a past life, I was a freshman at the University of Montana with dreams of majoring in political science.

It was like a lot of my dreams—dumb and stupid. I was naive enough to believe I could master our political system via PowerPoint in a university that was extorting me for tens of thousands of dollars a year.

But I did catch one piece of knowledge b…

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