A very good test of narrative vigor for anything that's older than 10 years is whether it has a thread of narrative continuity through 2011-14 that does in fact continue uninterrupted through 2015-20 rather than being an abandoned dead end.
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I didn’t predict either the right or wrong future. I just pointed to both as possibilities and warned against one.https://breakingsmart.com/en/season-1/the-future-in-the-rear-view-mirror/ …
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The biggest thing I missed was which elites would lead a reactionary revolt. I was focused on fox elites (aka Bernie/inequality crowd), but the ones who led were the lion elites. But I didn't learn about the Pareto fox vs. lion circulation of elites theory till later.
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Kind make sense, since the 2013-14 milieu which I was thinking about was all techlash, inequality, occupy wall street etc., with Piketty being headline news. I expected a leftist-fox-reaction and got a rightist-lion-reaction.
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I apologise if this sounds rude, but I think you were overly optimistic when you wrote those essays. I remember you arguing in Breaking Smart that all work would become psychologically satisfying and rewarding.
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