realized on the solo car drive out to the woods while ruminating on Albion's Seed that the (moldbug?) argument that the US is just the English Civil War by other means is basically sound and I just fuck man
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Current culture war dynamics map approximately to Blue=Roundheads and Red=Cavaliers but it's a very shallow correspondence imo
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I think it's literally the descendants of each Puritan New England was basically Roundheads in exile, the Tidewater Cavaliers literally Cavalier families
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That is historically accurate but is deeply confounded by 400 years of American divergence and incorporation of other groups and subcultures
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