It's a bitter pill to give up your childhood faith in the Myth of 1776. Moldbug warned us that the pill slits open and the sodium core burns as it goes down. ...but it makes perfect sense that an elite will always be in power I remember reading a brief article 20 or 30 yrs ago
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10/ More or less in keeping with Nozick's "Wilt Chamberlain" argument re unequal results in market economies, we've got a "Kennedy / Biden" argument re unequal results in political exchange. The Kennedies etc will always rise to the top, like toilet paper in a septic tank.
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11/ You can stir a septic tank, but as soon as you put down the paddle, the solid matter settles back to the bottom and the TP floats to the top again. So too with politics and revolutions. You can hate the Gini coefficient of power distribution, but you can't really change it
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12/ It IS cheerful. I'm giving you permission to stop spending your time stirring a septic tank, and go read a book or learn glassblowing or take up piano. That's the most useful thing you'll hear this year.https://twitter.com/bronwynwilliams/status/1347164854029836289 …
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13/ ok, let's test theories with an experiment you do ... whatever your theory tells you too, and then report back to me about how well that behavior has changed the universe https://twitter.com/hellcat_lady/status/1347171638454804482 …
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14/ I am also interested in being left alone Please tell me how your theories achieve that. https://twitter.com/hellcat_lady/status/1347172570706055169 …
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15/ Well, I guess that means that your theory is better / smarter / more accurate. Congrats on that, and best of luck. https://twitter.com/hellcat_lady/status/1347173154838388739 …
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16/ Accepting the truth of powerlessness can be a bit demoralizing, so folks push back against it with (a) false claims to inside knowledge (e.g. QAnon) (b) false claims to power ("when the Boog happens, our team will starve out the blue cities!")https://twitter.com/Pedantrynmotion/status/1347199854917857280 …
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