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What. The. Fuck? JFC.. the US of 2017 is acting more and more like the US of 1950. The world should be horrified.

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Jul 20, 2017

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What good is being horrified going to do, on top of everything else that has to be done?

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A world which is horrified by the US, compared to a world which aspired to be them, will make a broad & irreducible difference in actions.

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On a political level, sure, although where one empire falls another soon rises. I'm not sure Chinese hegemony would be improvement. Perhaps.

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The bar is pretty low, and in general, new paradigms are more adaptive than those at the end of their lifecycle.

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Disagree on first point. Theoretically correct, but practically track record of new empires... not too great. Second point - definitely true

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There is an argument that adaptability is value-neutral, and by definition, that which spreads is adaptive (as with biological evolution).

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Poor second postulate. Survival, not virality, implies adaptiveness. You can't survive 10000 years without it. You can spread fast, though.

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True. I thinks it's likely a combination; in a rapidly changing environment, more adaptive paradigm is also more likely to spread?

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I actually think the relative stubbornness of capitalism has a lot to do with how slowly and organically it developed. Deep, deep roots.

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Absolutely. It spread creation across vast number of people, rather than strictly managed top-down. Top-down *culture* unified efforts.