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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      18/ believed in Big Government heard and soul, etc. They were more than happy to herd American citizens into camps based on ancestry. The excesses of government-run Jim Crow were everywhere. H L Mencken, Laura Ingalls Wilder, that whole crowd - those were the DISSIDENTS.

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      19/ This was before the 1960s push for more free speech (which I strongly defend). So of the 139 US citizens in 1945, how many were "our tribe" ? I'm guessing 1/4 or so. So the population of our tribe was maybe 35 M back then.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      20/ 2021 - how big is Our Tribe now? I think it's still about 1/4 of the US population ... which makes it 82 million people. ...but now we've got connectivity. A tribe is defined not just by shared characteristics, but by shared culture and connectivity. Our tribe >>>

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      21/ In South Africa, Russia, Germany, Japan, Australia, Chile - all over. I don't think there are 82 million people in this New Country Without a Name - I think there are more like 150 or 200 million. That's still a huge minority of the Earth's population ... but it's big.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      22/ Our tribe includes people building spaceships and people building alternative crypto currencies. It has randos hacking the vaccine distribution network to create better efficiencies, and it has classical artists improving the aesthetics of the world. It has authors & moms.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      23/ The New Country Without a Name is hard to see, because we were all raised in the Westphalian System and we don't yet have words for such things, or eyes to see it. But look around your twitter mutuals These are the patriots of the new country.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      24/ My friend @skiballar once said "I realized that I'm a patriot of a country that never really existed". I'm going to turn that around. "I've realized that I'm a patriot of a company that doesn't yet [ fully ] exist."

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      25/ The Cathedral can [ and will ] try to push us underground, but they're working off a broken and outdated model. They think that they're preserving their own decaying incompetent kleptocracy which is based on geographic borders. ...but what they're actually doing is >

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      26/ telling the competent, the truthful, the unintimidated, the skillful, the prudent, the brave, the family creators: "This society has no place for you. You don't belong here. You're not One of Us." I agree with them! The Bidens, the AOCs, the Kamalas - they're right.

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      27/ They're 100% right.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

      28/ The USG is a quarter millennium old pile of garbage with a veneer of marble and red-white-and-blue bunting, wrapped in a rainbow flag, decorated with anti-intellectual "tRuSt tHe sCiEncE" propaganda posters. It can't launch a spaceship. It can't distribute a vaccine.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          29/ It can't prevent Great Power infiltration and subversion. It can't secure its borders. It can't rig an election well enough to convince people. It can't convince its citizens, so it has to silence them.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          30/ Moldbug is right that we should not take up arms against this gray, incompetent, Brezhnevite joke of a regime. ...but I don't think he's right that we should wait for Emperor Thiel to free us. I think that's still 19th century thinking.

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          31/ The new world that I see being born is spread across the Earth, and is in orbit, is on the moon and Mars, and elsewhere. ...and the nations and tribes of that new world are not crisply geographically distinct. We live in a privileged time. We're witnessing great things

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          32/ About once every 500 years the world changes fundamentally. ~ 0 AD: the birth of a new kind of administrative state [ Rome ] and a new religion that was supportive of individuals [ Christianity ]

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          33/ ~ 500 AD: birth of post-Roman world, integration of administration & German tribal democracy ~ 1,000 AD: formalization of the above, developments in art, philosophy, some tech ~ 1,500 AD the Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution precursor

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          34/ End of the ~500 year run of the Westphalian system, beginning of something new. Neal Stephenson had more than a small glimpse of this, with his neo-Victorians.

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          35/ Nothing build on a lie can long survive, and can never thrive. The Cathedral system is built on SOOOO many lies: * credential education, even in made up nit wit topics, is good * family is meaningless, children are bad * "merit" and "intelligence" are fake concepts

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          36/ I could go down the list, but you know all the lies that we're all being asked to believe. You know all of the pinches of incense that we're being asked to burn for Caesar.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          37/ So what is this New Invisible Country? More or less the inverse of all of that * Competence is real. * Results matter. * Credentials don't. * Social lies are laughable. * Moral bravery matters; following the latest trends is actively bad * Family, marriage, children matter

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          38/ * Free speech is good. * Rights are real. * Producing value isn't the ONLY thing in life, but it's an important thing. * Piety and decency matter. * Western civilization has more good than bad. * People who are willing to accept our culture are welcome to join our project

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          39/ I could go on and on, but lunch is on the table. TLDR: don't despair because the old corrupt system is failing; rejoice because we few, we happy few, we band of brothers, are building a new nation, right under their eyes. And we're succeeding.

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter

          40/ Yep. TFW "there's a lot of ruin in a nation" means that the boss villain has far more hitpoints than you'd hope.https://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1351225761655623683 …

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          Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter @drethelin
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          On the one hand I love the optimism on the other hand, the USSR kept on trucking for quite a while after 55
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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Ornery

          41/ The arc of things in the long run is good. The arc of things over the next 20-30 years is chaotic AF.https://twitter.com/OrneryThe8th/status/1351229897222606857 …

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          Ornery @OrneryThe8th
          Thread. Interesting perspective on the arc of things in the long run, but doesn't tell us much about the next few years or decades. We live in interesting times, to be sure. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1351202070175637510 …
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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

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          42/ If you liked my white-pill thread about how Our Tribe is gonna win in the end, you might be interested in some novels I wrote on the same topic.https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1303047090399055875 …

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          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
          1/ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Better than 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress' " -Amazon I wrote 2 novels about AI, uplifted dogs, markets, guns, lunar colonization #1 won the Prometheus "best novel" award in 2018 #2 won the same award in 2019 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JPPMS6 … https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B5283G2 … pic.twitter.com/5guDVx2XfK
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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

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          43/ Can you imagine Reagan and the entire Republican party in 1981 trying to regulate 'zines out of existence, because mimeographed newsletters about music and anarchism were a threat to the powers that be? No. And yet here we are, 40 years later. https://twitter.com/Holbornlolz/status/1351243262212902915 …

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          44/ relevant to this thread https://twitter.com/TheAgeofShoddy/status/1351245643331862532 …

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 18 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          45/ Sure. I like "phyle" a bit better, and that's the one I use in Aristillus 3 and 4 ... which I intend to get back to as soon as Escape the City ships. https://twitter.com/Atrosto/status/1351287702214242307 …

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Matt Ridley

          46/ (a) Amazing. Congrats, UK, on a great policy decision. (b) this is what the new post-Westphalian world looks like. Charter cities, exclaves, expats with citizenship in place A but residence in place B ...https://twitter.com/mattwridley/status/1351531363997020164 …

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          Matt RidleyVerified account @mattwridley
          "The UK will introduce a new visa at the end of January that will give 5.4 million Hong Kong residents - a staggering 70% of the territory's population - the right to come and live in the UK, and eventually become citizens." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55357495 …
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          47/ I think I've muted like 5 doomers already today. Ahead of schedule, for 9:58 am, but way below quota for the day. Muting people is great technology - it's shaping the social graph ... which is a key part of defining and building the new tribe / phyle / distributed nation.

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          48/ Aphorism: whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.

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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          49/ Parable: a man came to the city gate and asked the guard "what are the people like in this city?". The guard answered with a question "what are they like in YOUR city?". The man replied "they are liars, cheats, and thieves" Guard: "you will find this city much the same"

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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          50/ a second man came to the city gate and asked the guard "what are the people like in this city?". The guard answered with a question "what are they like in YOUR city?". The man replied "they are kind, helpful, and honest" Guard: "you will find this city much the same".

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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          51/ The hilarious thing about these griefers, these doomsters, is that when they assert "no, no, the communists have won, and things won't get better ever, or if they do, not in our lifetimes!!!" ... they're showing that they're not really opposed to the communists. >

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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          52/ They're co-dependent. They want the emotional certainty that doom is everywhere, that hard work shouldn't be attempted, because it's pointless. Risk scares them. Work scares them. Being an adult scares them.

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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          53/ A doomster approaches the New Country that is being born, and asks the guard "is hard work rewarded in this new country? is giving a damn worth it in this new country?" guard: what did you do back in the US? doomster: I whined & complained guard: I would do the same here

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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          54/ A True American approaches the New Country and asks the guard "is hard work rewarded in this new country? is giving a damn worth it in this new country?" guard: what did you do back in the US? patriot: I took risks, worked hard, and stood on my own feet. guard: welcome !

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        28. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          55/ and the gate to the New Country was opened for him.

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        29. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          56/ 121 followers. Never fails. This New Country isn't for you, @lost_gothi . Best of luck elsewhere.pic.twitter.com/JrmTFed3Wp

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        30. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          57/ Great poem, but I've highlighted my favorite part. Hard work, even ( especially !) in face of adversity is what makes one a Man, my son! Doomsters hate this one secret.pic.twitter.com/A7JEhtUsW7

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        31. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Jan 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted EnochPowell

          58/ TY! I think we've been seeing this new world slowly coalesce for 20+ years already. It may take another 30, 50, or 130 until it's fully fledged. Gutenberg press (1440) -> US Declaration of Independence (1776) took some time.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1351550172258451459 …

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          EnochPowell @MogTheUrbanite
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          Thank you for the uplifting thread. This was something I've dreamed of for a long time, but I figured I would never be alive long enough to see it begin to take shape. Seeing the same dream in other people gives me hope
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