The extremism on the right is the extremism of impatience… so close but they can’t fully cut loose while the fiction of nominal balance is worth preserving a while longer. The extremism on the left is that of a cornered animal with no meaningful options left.
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It is always illuminating to watch velvet gloves come off, revealing the rusty iron fists beneath
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Since business executive and senior managerial ranks have gone mostly full accelerationist at this point, it is not surprising that white-collar employee activism has emerged as the last meaningful lever of majority/democratic political action (blue collar/old union seems owned)
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It is deployed in bumbling, fringe, counter-productive ways, but when comfortable, bougie white collar workers start getting desperate enough for political agency that they start signing ill-conceived letters, staging walkouts, and enabling obvious DEI grifters, it’s serious
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It is not clear to me that any of the political actors at any locus are unambiguously positive enough to support whole-heartedly. It’s a pick-your-poison buffet. I think I’m mostly wary of the completely disenfranchised being completely abandoned without representation anywhere.
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Perhaps the most confounding thing is that whatever their actual agency, everybody acts like a frustrated, helpless, and besieged minority being hemmed in by powerful nefarious opponents. I actually believe everybody. Pie of agency relative to magnitude of problems is shrinking.
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Pie of overall agency may be growing in absolute terms due to technology, but problems are growing even faster. So everybody feels relatively helpless.
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As always I conclude my own personal path to agency is to acquire a mansion 😎
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Same seems true around the world. The Westphalian state has been marked end-of-life. Please do not use this component in future civilizational designs.
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Westphalian World: Dominion
A world of de facto or de jure theocracies built around church-state-corporation assemblages (any ideology counts as a church) with mainly city-state level locus of agency. Even when the corp piece is an MNC.
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