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Like you, I've lost a lot of my liberal friends over the years. Aristotle explained that there are three types of friendships: the friendship of utility, the friendship of pleasure, and the friendship of virtue (neofeudalreview.substac… ) . I've known the guy a long time but I wouldn't classify it as a deep friendship or a friendship of …
Like you, I've lost a lot of my liberal friends over the years. Aristotle explained that there are three types of friendships: the friendship of utility, the friendship of pleasure, and the friendship of virtue (https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/on-the-nature-of-friendship ) . I've known the guy a long time but I wouldn't classify it as a deep friendship or a friendship of virtue. We catch up for lunch or coffee every six months or so and mostly discuss work...
Ok that makes sense. I have those too. They’re fun to toy with, because circumstances prevent them from ghosting you. What’s hilarious is that though they always consider themselves informed, they are always at least a month behind on current events. It takes their news sources that long at a minimum to get their story straight.