I'm not convinced it isn't
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I'm trying to think of an empire that unwound not during a massive war and I'm not coming up with anything
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certainly economically it's tractable (we have the capital and the productive capacity, it's just misallocated)
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I don't know about the national identity politics, though
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That's the part I'd call intractable. Those doing what he's talking about? already picked Team Red. That ship sailed
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Everything he's saying, that's exactly what Thiel is trying to pull off. Balancing libertarianism & utilitarianism.
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It's a coincidence of history Red was weaker and more vulnerable, it's not through any particular virtue of theirs…
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But from here, grey&black tribe either succeeds or fails entirely. What happens with old Team Blue is less clear
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Star Trek figured it out, so we should be able to.
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Yeah. People want change without changing themselves (or the civilizational paradigm ie. financial capitalism).
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