"by death-gripping their privileges;" There's murder, arson, and jaywalking, and then there's Codevilla's jaywalking, littering, suicide bombing, and petty vandalism.
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"defusing conflict between them by means of loosening relations between the states such that these become looser than existed prior to the Civil War." Sorry. As above, the Permanent Revolution is aware they can't allow separation.
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"Prior to Progressivism, the American political tradition had not been about imposing any way of life on anyone." ...hmm? Do I hear hyenas? They are laughing. A lot.
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"it may be possible to convince it to switch from its present offensive mode to a defensive one." Ironically the correct way to deal with proggies would be to pay them off. Find out who loses their job from The Wall, and retire them at 100% their current wage. Maybe even 120%.
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Of course this is no more politically possible than it's politically possible to demolish a large New York building while people are still inside, to avoid having it fall uncontrolled across other inhabited buildings.
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"Were this to be the happy case, the conservative side of American life, operating from a dominant position, might be able to obtain agreement to some form of true federalism." You just keep stepping in it, don't you Codevilla?
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America also can't allow separation because: Trade routes are intricately interlinked and are owned by political supporters. Who gets the debt? Who gets The Bombs? Frankly, separation is just too much work for an exhausted Late Empire.
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"Unattainable, and gone forever, is the whole American Republic that had existed for some 200 years after 1776." Ignorance is bliss. Maybe -don't- read your Moldbug: you're not emotionally robust enough to handle it.
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"For some, laws are already on the books (18 USC I/29/611)" "A dying Empire accumulates laws the way a dying man accumulates remedies."
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Anyway, that's all for Codevilla's errors calling forth correction.
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A jargon maintenance technician of the public knowledgebase.
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I'm thinking more of a sensor. You point it at something and it can tell you what it sees. Just don't ask the sensor to understand what it senses. Indeed, ask it to refrain from pretending to such abilities.
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Can't say I agree. They're decoders/re-encoders, not scout probes. Psycho-Pass: “This is about finding the truth behind people’s deaths! If we want to uncover such a thing, naturally we must risk our own lives!” Scholars are about filing the report - if the info comes back.
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Oh, I see what you mean now. I projected my interest in the cost-of-retrieval dimension too much.
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There's certainly a code/decoder layer behind the scouts. I think a good scout includes that layer, though.
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No. He's very prescient. And I don't get the lab rat comment.
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