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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Jun 2018
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      28/ I’m particularly distressed and sensitive to this stuffbecause I’m *not* a “crisis” migrant. My parents live in India, I’m free to go back and forth, stay as connected as I want, have the best of both worlds.*I know what crisis-migrants lose because I still have it*

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Jun 2018
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      29/ So when I see America being cruel to people who are at high risk of losing half of their cultural beings, it feels like a spectacle of willful cultural violence and really bad global citizenship.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Jun 2018
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      30/ It feels especially selfish coming from a country that could wage 2 world wars and a Cold War at a safe remove and then reshape entire continents to its liking in the aftermath, without even gaining the label of “colonial power”

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Jun 2018
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      31/ For almost 100 years, America has been free to take the best of the rest of the world, be mostly insulated from troubles caused both by itself and other powers. Arrange a planet’s worth of raw materials, carbon-sink forests, markets etc for its benefit.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 22 Jun 2018
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      32/ And now it has the gall to act like the injured exploited party, take its resources and retreat behind its isolationist borders, loudly claiming it is the rest of the world that is “ungrateful”? Takes a very special, heavily edited sense of world history to do that.

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    6.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 23 Jun 2018
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      What voice do you focus on as the official anthropomorphic representative of the country?

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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      Good question. It’s not as narrow as a Trumpist shouting MAGA cliches, but it is also not a confused cacophony of internal debate. There’s definitely a well-defined egregore for “American”. The cartoon Uncle Sam actually comes close.

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    8.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 23 Jun 2018
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      I haven't thought of Uncle Sam as relevant to anything in at least one generation, if not two or three. Can you attach this idea to anything concrete? I think of it as the "confused cacophony". Sure, some people are isolationist, but others are interventionist.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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      Never in American history has the opposite of isolation truly been ‘interdependence’, the default for most other countries. Political science profs talk of isolation vs interdependence, but laypeople talk of isolation vs intervention. The latter is more accurate view of US.

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    10.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 23 Jun 2018
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      Yeah, America is geopolitically unique. It's a massive contiguous batch of diverse resources, geographically isolated from competing powers, organized on the latest principles, with almost zero historical baggage. We can afford to treat interdependence as optional.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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      Could afford to. No longer true. I mean there’s now a crisis on the west coast due to China refusing to take in our recycling anymore. Doesn’t get more interdependent than that.

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        2.  🤧 🌎‏ @atthatmatt 23 Jun 2018
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          It's still optional. We could dump the trash in Nevada and not be bothered by it for another 100 years. We engage with the world because we usually win, not because we have to.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 23 Jun 2018
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          Well now we’re into the specifics of cost-benefit tradeoffs of isolationism vs interdependence. In that sense it’s always been optional for all sufficiently large countries. Only the cost of isolationism varies. It’s going up for everybody now.

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