13. I hope you understand why I go "aaaaaaaaaaa" when people go "ew, these people who lend money, go from place to place, are into spreadsheets and abstractions, and don't follow our martial/socially-conservative national traditions." You see, I *like* living.
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14. When I hear the word "bugman" I start fantasizing about finally having enough time in my schedule to go to the gun range on the regular. *I like living.* This is kinda important.
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15. So, ok. The international liberal order was set up in 1945 and it was meant to promote US interests. Nobody talks about that now except foreign countries that oppose the US, and Yarvin, but it was. "Internationalism" is a method of maintaining US global hegemony.
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16. Internationalism has bad points and good points. The bad part: lots of war. The good part: sorry but a lot of American values are good actually. I *want* girls to get to leave home and go to school or work and keep their money in their pocket and have a room of their own.
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17. All that Disney-princess stuff. "I wanna be where the people are". "How far I'll go." "I can show you the world." "There must be more than this provincial life." It's ... poignant. It's a real thing. And it's a very American-universalist thing.
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18. I *know* the other perspective that this is wrecking traditional cultures. I see that other perspective *constantly.* I'm conflicted about it; it still causes me pain. I'm just laying out that there's something lovely about Western-universalist liberalism.
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19. But, ok, the international order is crumbling. Do I like what's filling the vacuum? I do not. Is Putin's Russia a nice place to live? Xi's China? Orban's Hungary? Modi's India? aaaaaa. I'm not sure what to think exactly but I think "aaaaaa" is justified.
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20. The "other team" -- team "listen to the experts", team CDC, team WHO -- yes, they have totally flunked the COVID-19 test. They are sclerotic and authoritarian-submissive and they are totally clueless. Two sides of a global conflict can both be bad.
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21. If someone asks you "who do you like better, Hitler or Stalin?" the right answer is "neither, asshole."
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22. Just because nationalists are agentic doesn't mean you want to be on their team. Pay attention, sometimes they have a point, but *real life is not a multiple choice test.* You don't have to say "ok these are the coalitional options, I'll pick one of the above."
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23. This whole "we need a new elite" thing -- hm. yes and no. "Be skeptical of the old institutional elite" -- yes, 100%, they get things wrong, and quite a few people who aren't part of it get things right. But anoint a new elite? Hm. Lots to think about there.
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24. Who's to anoint this new elite? Not the old elite, that's for sure. Is it a different existing power bloc? A lot of the most easily visible ones are...very. very. bad. news. very bad news *particularly* for Jews, if not now, then eventually. And as I said, I *like* living.
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25. Now if you want good ideas to be put into practice, obviously the idea guys need to sync up with some money and power guys. (Or be ideas-and-money-and-power guys all at once.)
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