bread and circuses --> pacifism
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Replying to @mims
It's all great until the barbarian Huns show up. And then you've got to either pay them off, or find other barbarians to defend yourself with, and then it all falls apart when they realize there's nothing keeping them from just taking what they like.
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Replying to @antoniogm @mims
Also, what I think might be a bigger driver of pacifism in the West is an aging population. The young want to prove themselves, and the slightly older want to protect their young families. But the elderly? They just want a quiet life, and aren't going to risk that for anything.
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Replying to @antoniogm @mims
Put another way: pacifism as a social strategy is great....until you run into your first non-pacifist. The reality is that pacifism is a hypocritical philosophy: someone else always dies to defend it.
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Replying to @antoniogm @mims
That's the fundamental problem with libertarianism.
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Most libertarians I know own enough guns to arm an army platoon.
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Replying to @antoniogm @mims
Sure -- but when the barbarians Huns show up -- do the same libertarians come out in force like an actual army would?
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Sure. Fighting to be left alone isn’t just a rhetorical gag.
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Maybe - but I doubt it.
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Time to run what I call The Red Dawn Test: If a foreign nation were to invade and occupy parts of the US, who among your friends (or national political factions) would cave to the new masters, and who would take to the mountains with stolen weapons and fight as partisans?
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I used to ask myself this when living full-time in the SF Bay Area. Most people didn't pass. In that event, just about every SF techie would make of show of Tweeting something patriotic, and then line up for a job with the Sino-American Co-Prosperity Sphere.
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