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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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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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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48/ Aphorism: whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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55/ and the gate to the New Country was opened for him.
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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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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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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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61/ One of the most encouraging things about this thread is that I've been getting RTs in Spanish, DMs from Austrians and Swedes, etc. This new Secret Country, this Distributed Republic, is more American than not, but it knows no geographic borders or racial lines. >
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62/ The communists tell us that this terrible thing called "whiteness" believes in merit, hard work, schedules, just deserts, and more. I disagree with two things: * that there's anything "white" about that. This is a set of ideas, not a skin color. * that it's terrible.
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63/ Some of my best friends in this tribe, this new Secret Country, are white, Anglo, and their families have been in the New World for 300+ years. ...but others were born in Mexico, Africa, Taiwan, and other places. I'm not saying that the Brexit folks in the UK, or >
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64/ the Mouvement des gilets jaunes in France, or Bolsonaroism or r various other movements in other areas are the exact same thing as MAGA ... but there is some overlap of the sets. There are people world-wide who resent the incompetent credentialed elites sneering at them >
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65/ Indeed, I'm sure that there are huge disconnects between a random MAGA person and a random Gilets Jaunes. My point is not that this is one big movement. My point is that in the 21st century, geography cuts at 90 degrees to ideology.
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66/ Sometimes I look around the hideously divided US, where the two sides literally fantasize about murdering each other, and literally fear that they will be murdered in turn ... and think about what it might be like to be a member of a small 5 or 15 million person country
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67/ where there are domestic politics, to be sure. That prime minister, he's so corrupt! And his brother in the Water Authority - an arrogant SOB. He should be voted out! ...but wouldn't it be great to think of these people are YOUR bastards? You and the other 10 million >
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68/ at least agreeing on core things, like the fact that the national dish of fried-whatever-in-whatever-sauce is delicious? That the traditional folk music is wonderful? That the land you share is the most beautiful in the world? That all of the outsiders are sad bc >
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69/ They didn't have the good luck to be born HERE, to be part of THIS wonderful little culture? That's what I imagine we're going to see 50-150 years from now. Lots of little tribes / phyles / polities, each with their own norms, traditions, and values.
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70/ Will there be dissidents? Of course! And in a sane world, dissidents will do what they've always done - find their own kind. The current Westphalian system is a legacy of expensive travel, non existent communication, poor sorting.
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71/ I look forward to the future where our tribe, of 70 or 170 or 270 million, selected not by accident of birth location, but by belief in hard work, family, equality before the law, the right to make one's own mistakes, the right to worship God (or not), can stand on its feet.
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72/ Welcome to the New Country.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1351932617004781573 …
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73/ A friend sent me a link to an almost decade-old article, that overlaps w some of my points.https://www.wired.com/2013/11/software-is-reorganizing-the-world-and-cloud-formations-could-lead-to-physical-nations/ …
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74/ > What might these reverse diasporas be like? As a people whose primary bond is through internet, many of their properties would not fit our pre-existing mental models... these emigrants would be moving within or between nation states to become part of a community yes.jpg
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