80. Libertarian paternalism (aka Sunstein/Thaler Nudge models) is a bad idea in and of itself even if it doesn’t degenerate into basic paternalism
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91. Stereotypes are real, and there is always a subset of every stereotyped population that actually willingly conforms to that stereotype, performing it with an aggressive deadness. These dead player zombies are the core of all politics. All politics is about seeing dead people.
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92. All Straussians are wrong about almost everything just by virtue of being Straussian and being unable to come to terms with the central (heh!) role of mediocrity in the human condition. Their Noble Lies are mainly to themselves.
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93. Zizek is correct. The Normie ideology is cynicism, and conversely, all ideology turns into cynicism by the time it goes normie. This is why Noble Lie political philosophy is bs because there is no unawakened consciousness laboring under from it. http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/cynzizek.html …
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95. Opinion stolen from someone I've forgotten who: SE Asia has the potential to be the political laboratory of the future due to its diversity and topography (archipelago). One ideology tested per island, each with a Big Tech sponsor?
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96. Bwahahaha rabbitocracy ftw https://twitter.com/voyageur_techno/status/1207843830403338241?s=21 …https://twitter.com/voyageur_techno/status/1207843830403338241 …
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Gonna slow-walk these last 4 to the finish line and try to be first-in-last-out. For 97, let’s rerun an oldie https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1073751685212692480 …
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98. The right to freedom of information aka internet access is the most basic human right now, and states can only be trusted to the extent the protect it. This is the new Zeroth Law of Governmentics and sadly India has joined the ranks of countries currently breaking it
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99. I expect the Westphalian nation state default to start crumbling within my lifetime (ie next ~50y) and the only questions are a) how messily/violently and b) where can I hide out and tweet about it
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