To briefly touch on the substance of Scott's post the real failure mode of Prospera is that USG doesn't want there to be a successful model of good governance because it makes USG look bad so there won't be one within military reach of USG.https://twitter.com/CryptonMaximus/status/1389789823897063428 …
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The only lesson progressives took from the Cold War was "Don't let a West Berlin exist next to the East Berlin you want to create because you can't argue you way out of that kind of comparison" (or a W Germany / E Germany, N/S Korea)
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After a DM discussion with a Scott Alexander fan I have an addendum Scott's older work though not without flaws (that would grow over time) is valuable to read for people who needed a gentle off-ramp from the mainstream. [high quality] "Bunny slope dissidence" as Yarvin put it
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My view of it is more that he was trying to play the role of dissident Disney safari guide You went along with him when you had a nagging feeling of emptiness, he'd show you a curated selection of dissident thought and make sure you never really strayed into the dangerous jungle
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I swear he used to be smarter
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There's only so long you can keep up an act of being unconvinced and needing to carefully examine competing alternatives when confronted by a giant mountain of evidence that's also rapidly growing in size every hour. It goes from "wow, he's very smart" to "wtf, is he blind?"
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Laundering Regime propaganda to cut a check
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Institutions just spring up out of the magic dirt, they're an environmental feature.
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