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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      The thing I miss most about the 80s is that for a moment, briefly, there was something it was like to be simply human in a global sense. We said ‘think global, act local’ and there was something that was actually about, beyond sentimentality, between ~1984-89.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      The globalization of shared consciousness sort of unraveled with the Internet, even as it grew way stronger at the level of bits and atoms. Sure it was a false consciousness but there was a subjective there there to it.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      I’ve decided to be ironically reactionary and utopian about the 80s. It was a liminal decade where a couple of different futures seemed possible. Then we kinda locked and loaded the one we’re living in. Liminal adjacent possible forked away like ghostly exit ramps not taken.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      They weren’t particularly better or worse futures. Just different.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      The multiverse of psychohistory sort of fans out and bottlenecks and goes through long tunnels and lazy deltas. We’ve been in a fairly narrow bottleneck for about 30y where all multiverse roads lead to the same place.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Sep 2018
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      Paradoxically the more pluralistic and divergent actual reality is, the more bottlenecked the multiverse of possibilities is. There is a deterministic historical robustness to pluralism. Liberal democracy ends history by diversifying it maximally.

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