what is even left to say about the state of institutional collapse in the United States? too much talking about the obvious things. not enough talking about what comes next. how are we expected to build the future when the past won't let us move on?
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when someone says my business is their business then we have a conflict. interpersonal power struggles are a feature of being a social primate. bring back dueling imo. if people really want to make someone else's business their business they should be prepared for what comes.
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1/We still have dueling, it's just more abstract, such that you have to squint to discern what's really going on. There are lanes. We made them. If someone erased them, we'd make them again. There are lanes because lanes are useful. People drive on one side of the road or the
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2/other. It doesn't matter which. It just matters that they pick a side. It's a coordination game. One could with great effort get everyone to switch sides. But the chaotic state where people randomly pick a side won't last long. It's not useful.
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we may have a communication problem. the phrase "stay in your lane" is used by a particular variety of activist and means something like "segregation is good and intermixing of communities is harmful and we will police against it".
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Ah. Yeah, I mean it in the more widely-used idiomatic sense of "don't butt into other people's business."pic.twitter.com/aRf16fjwd2
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I think it is really the case that it is in our own familial self-interest to collaborate with lots of other similarly self-interested families, and that this is rightly the basis of community formation. America as a society has fucked up the process of determining...
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...which people are aligned in their interests and ought to collaborate in their business. this is the consequence of the culture war. the civil cold war (better name for it). until we solve this problem I don't see a way out.
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1/I would just deny there's a problem. The idea of a "nation" is very abstract; it's an emergent property of a sufficient number of people who have a similar-enough view of what a "nation" is. The nation-state is an effective level of organization to have (it seems) for waging
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