2/ Fast cascades do not indicate to me that people are grappling with issues and slowly reaching consensus - they indicate a purely social, not intellectual, process where people are snapping-to-grid. Conformity propagates outwards through the game-of-life grid. Zombies.
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13/ So anyway, I realized then that the elite class (a) have sort of a teleological world view where civilization means that everything becomes more and more centralized, and local independence / freedom upsets this vision of the anointed (b) they share class interest >
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14/ and it was likely physically painful for Bill Clinton to contemplate a member of his fellow elite having half of his serfs stripped away from him.
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15/ How I want Canada to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. How I want Ukraine to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave. >>>
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16/ How I want the US to deal with malcontents: hold elections; see who wants to stay and who wants to leave.
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18/ "by right of conquest" is descriptive, not prescriptive ; it explains what HAS happened and not (a) what should happen; (b) the various things that might happen is/ought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem …https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1498667547578839040 …
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