This last month has felt like it might be a turning back toward a certain kind of sanity: in business, Elon’s BS exposed, crypto imploding, and tech firm layoffs; in politics, Truss being summarily tossed, Bolsonaro losing (and conceding!), and the GOP’s worst fabulists flailing.
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All own goals though. None attributable to any elevation or improvement in the opposed things. And the opposed things also seem to only have own goals. Own goals are not sufficient for dialectical advances.
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They're own goals in the sense that they accidentally came into contact with reality, but it's not clear that they could have just stayed safely in the fantasy either.
Liz Truss's premiership, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and even China's top-down covid policy fit the pattern.
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