trying to disentangle how much of my profound pessimism about society stems from actual trends and likely outcomes vs how much from just being older and seeing things I grew fond of in my youth disappearing
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the two main problems I see are (i) china, an authoritarian hell state, becoming increasingly powerful while its main counterbalance, the united states, is doing its level best to destroy itself; and (ii) I live in the united states while it is trying to destroy itself
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I think I have convinced myself that these are real problems and not just superannuated griping about how bands were better in the 90s
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Ultimately, with the recent advent of mass information control courtesy of Big Tech, China has become the sustainable, final-evolution model; that is, I fear that all governments will ultimately evolve into a single-party, authoritarian, capitalist state. Including US.
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Or be subjugated via technology and macroeconomics (i.e., buying of debt) by China. The only advantage we have is the true free market of ideas (that Apple, MS, Google, etc. were only possible because of attributes of the USA), which is not possible in the Chinese system.
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I worry about many of these things although I don't see china as especially stable either
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