Kind of feeling black pilled, ngl. A question for my NRx guys (or anyone): there’s a narrative that the Cathedral is very obviously rapidly deteriorating under the weight of its own dishonesty/authoritarianism. But I’m not sure I see it. They still seem very much in charge.
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One of my big calibrating priors is "The Chernobyl meltdown and cost of the cleanup is what ultimately brought down the Soviet Union".
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TLDR? I’ll take a shot in the dark: it showed ppl that the state was incompetent & “red pilled” them enough to wake up.
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Or do you mean literally money cost made them too broke to continue?
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Yeah, that. It was just this huge black hole that they had to pour men and materials into, to stop the disaster from getting worse. It was too large and too sudden a shock for the economy to keep limping on, which it otherwise may have got away with for a few more decades.
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