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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living in the US while it destroyed itself would be less of a problem if I did not have a child and plans for more. I am resourceful and resilient but that is a lot of Circumstance to drop on children.
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on a car ride earlier tonight
@selentelechia and I discussed redlines for abandoning our city, our state, and our country intra-US moves depend on factors that may change quickly. outside the US, depending on other factors: certain South American stateshttps://twitter.com/Cererean/status/1372871302609002497?s=19 …eigenrobot added,
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in a lot of ways im not that sure it matters, tho if the US goes down we're dragging the rest of the world with us
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Did you see what Maximo Alvarez said about America during his RNC speech? He came w/his family when they fled Cuba, after his dad had fled the Spanish Revolution. Through tears: "I can still hear my Dad: There is no other place to go."https://www.today.com/news/rnc-2020-maximo-alvarez-delivers-speech-about-american-dream-t190145 …
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