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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27/ They're 100% right.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @MorlockP
Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series goes for something similar, although with a more humanities bent. The setup is that the US had tried to employ the draft, but so many citizens felt their primary allegiance was to a non-westphalian body that the whole idea of the state fell apart.
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I've got some book by her on my to-read pile. Forget which one, but it looked great.
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