spooky take
occurred maybe the case for pessimism rn is not any particular policy by the administration or woke people taking over everything or gadsden flag mobs or whatever
rather its that the us government seems incapable of responding to new crises and they accumulate
-
Show this thread
-
like yes different things in the list i mention are bad and you can be sure i agree with you abt which ones are actually bad or even real but they seem marginal compared to the government clearly cant do a damn thing right and wont get out of the way to let other people fix stuff
5 replies 0 retweets 131 likesShow this thread -
eigenrobot Retweeted North Korean Liberation Front
so yes things just start piling up Afghanistan is a clusterfuck, the only response to the supply chain is "welp", covid response is a sad joke, we never even really got over 2008 in a lot of ways more and more and morehttps://twitter.com/TheTriarii/status/1452680300186718213?t=CuNZu9NtnGsedQYbq7j4Zg&s=19 …
eigenrobot added,
5 replies 2 retweets 128 likesShow this thread -
so things keep piling up and getting worse and the government focuses on doing what it can do which seems to be setting money on fire and making insider trades and issuing increasingly meaningless diktats that sort of convey the idea theyre doing somethinghttps://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/22/jennifer-klein-national-gender-strategy-policy-council-equity-equality/ …
7 replies 10 retweets 121 likesShow this thread -
so maybe we make it through the supply chain crisis without things really going tits up, maybe federalism starts kicking in and states handle things more gracefully and flexibly, lots of ways out idk. its possible im over pessimistic today, but this clicked for me and seems bad
3 replies 0 retweets 87 likesShow this thread -
assuming the model is approximately correct, maybe the question is "at what level of social or political organization below the current one do we find a stable floor" i have no idea but might be worth considering. ilu stay strapped
11 replies 1 retweet 100 likesShow this thread -
related from
@robinhanson ht@arctanno this seems like a very difficult and unsolved problem see also the guy whose name i forget talking about sociopolitical sclerosis generally https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/what-makes-stuff-rot.html …4 replies 1 retweet 33 likesShow this thread -
Eh this isn't a recent thing
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
i know
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.