"What’s happening? I don’t know and I find it really scary." http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/ … -- The anti-Planet-Sized Nutshell.
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Replying to @Outsideness
NRx is ignorant and wrong. (All predictions come true.) Proggies hip and knowledgeable. (Wut hapen? I dun git it.) Rationality!
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
Though fer realz the game is accept all the data but come up with Proggie-compliant explanations.
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
He couldn't come up with the right spin on his own and wants help with the correct socially-acceptable rationalization.
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After 1850, the Chinese intelligentsia spent a century trying to work out how their civilization had gone wrong. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness
... They never worked it out. Instead, eventually, Deng Xiaoping let capitalism sort it out, which it did, almost immediately. ...
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... Seems hubristic to imagine that the Western intelligentsia are going to end up with a superior diagnostic record.
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Western intellectuals have repeatedly demonstrated you -can- work it out if you're serious and not virtue-signalling.
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Replying to @Alrenous
I'm not seeing much Western superiority in answering the "Why do we keep doing stupid shit?" question.
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Replying to @Outsideness
What? It's been thoroughly answered. Also note West is -already- trying capitalism, and it isn't strong enough.
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"West is -already- trying capitalism" -- disconcerting veer into comedy moment.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Alrenous
... I mean, you agree "trying capitalism" and "trying to cut back on the communism" are substantially inter-changeable?
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