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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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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