1. I want to make one thing perfectly clear. I'm not against cos-play or LARPing if it is done in the right spirit, as dorky hobbyists who like to dress up on weekends. What I object to is foreign policy LARPing.pic.twitter.com/Zpfu70AYoD
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Yes, the 1960s, the famous era of a docile population that made no demands for change.
I didn't say the nostalgia was based on an accurate understanding of the past.
I would propose a lot of people treat climate change orthodoxy a lot like Sen. McCarthy treated the great red scare
Jeet -- you're way too polite. Wee redistribute hundreds of billions (maybe more than $1 tr) upwards each year with intellectual property rules. The beneficiaries want to continue to make these longer and stronger.
These policies are against the interest of 90 percent of the population. But if we can make them part of our Cold War against the evil Chinese, then who can argue?
Marginally better than Orwell worship and thinking every moment is Munich '38, because the legacy is containment rather than conquest, but only marginally.
A generational shift from 2001, where the oldest statesmen remembered the 30s.
This all feeds my general feelings about American zeitgeist -that the nation as a whole is stuck in nostalgia about post-WWII dominance. Thinking it was all about us, when it never really was. (It was "nobody bombed North America.")
First time as tragedy, the second time as farce
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