Nick Land is smarter than his followers, but he has the same predilection for using ahistorical trash as the basis for an entire worldviewhttps://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/892982603313172480 …
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Replying to @paulcurrion
So you've pretty much committed yourself now to telling us which major wave of US immigration made the country more libertarian. I'll wait.
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Replying to @Outsideness
I haven't committed myself to anything. How did Native Americans and early African Americans fit in to this "classical liberal culture"?
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Replying to @paulcurrion @Outsideness
"Classical liberalism" is itself a purely retrospective term used to create a historical narrative, of course.
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Replying to @paulcurrion
Diverting the topic into a question of words is just evasion. It's quite clear how the Founding Fathers thought.
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Replying to @Outsideness
If it's quite clear how the Founding Fathers thought then why is there so much debate about it in the US?
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Replying to @paulcurrion
Because blowing smoke is what politics mostly consists of.
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Replying to @Outsideness
Except when it comes to the Founding Fathers, who you don't believe were blowing smoke. You can't have it both ways, mate.
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Replying to @paulcurrion
The Founding Fathers were attempting to engineer a polity that would be secure against mass politics. Evidently, they failed.
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... It didn't do too badly for a beta launch, though. (And we have asymmetric proof-of-work cryptosystems to build with now.)
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