78. Capital punishment should be stopped
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79. The world would be a much healthier place if there were habitable ungoverned regions set aside by international agreement as exile spaces for anyone to go to
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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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81. Every significant tech era retires a few ideologies and enables a few new ones. The ones being retired by software eating the world are: socialism, classical liberalism, eurocentrism, and identitarianism, and each is the core of a reactionary movement right now
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82. No "new" ideology currently has a fully established claim to a seat at the big table as a new political actor, despite frantic posturing to pretend otherwise.
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83. The top 6 ground-level phenomenology trends driving the new politics are: climate change/energy transitions, housing in metro areas globally, aging and falling birth rates in west, migration, inequality and healthcare. Your opinions on these 5 things ARE your ideology.
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84. Asia (beyond just China) has forked off. There are now two competing Grand Narratives in the world.
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85. The financial/investment world has no clue what's going on, is afraid of everything, and has been largely reduced to One Weird Trick: financialization. The One Weird Trick is increasingly being executed by minds that have already retreated to New Zealand bunkers
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86. Neither the 1% nor the under-the-API nouveau-poor (bottom 60%?) can invent the future that needs inventing now. It's up to the mediocre-normie middle class. It's a race between forces shrinking this class, and imaginative political actions emerging from this class.
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Go take another look at the family backgrounds of people like Marx etc :)
All the leaders come from the mediocre-normie middle class.
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I wouldn't bet on any of the movements that didn't have a strong middle-class leadership. A 60% led movement can cause revolutions and civil war, but not invent the future.
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