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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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      When Trump-like figures get a lot of support in the developing world, I can pretend it's just a sign of pre-modern, illiterate medievalism..

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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      But when a guy like him gets double-digit support in a supposedly developed, modern country that I chose to immigrate to...that's depressing

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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      I mean the US isn't a country with massive illiteracy, poverty, ayatollahs running amok and entrenched religion-based caste warfare...

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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      With the huge (perhaps crippling) exceptions of slavery and Native American genocide, the US in many ways was an experiment in Humanity 2.0

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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      In 1776, the experiment started without the burden of a big chunk of the civilizational baggage and demons of Humanity 1.0

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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          Within a century it hit material prosperity unseen anywhere, anytime. The experiment almost seemed to be working.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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          But then, every piece of baggage from Humanity 1.0 was reinvented for Humanity 2.0. With Trump, all the baggage has been recovered.

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        2. Ryk Comerford‏ @Truth_Quest30 11 Dec 2015
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          @vgr Poll numbers aren't votes. Rudy Giuliani was the poll front runner in 2008, when voting started hardly got any.Skeptical Trump will win

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 11 Dec 2015
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          .@Truth_Quest30 I don't think he'll win. It just pisses me off that he even has as much support as he does.

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        2. beka valentine‏ @beka_valentine 11 Dec 2015
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          @vgr i think perhaps the truth of the matter is: it had all the baggage of H1.0, but none of the societal structure that kept it in check

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        3. beka valentine‏ @beka_valentine 11 Dec 2015
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          @vgr consider, for instance, that slavery was abolished in the UK long before it was abolished in the US, by popular will not civil war

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        1. Ben Shepard (发发)‏ @pronouncedfafa 11 Dec 2015
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          @vgr take a look @ gerald horne's counterrevolution of 1776: http://nyupress.org/books/9781479893409/ …

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        1. Micah Redding  🧬 ⚙️ 🔥 🗽‏ @micahtredding 11 Dec 2015
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          @vgr Maybe humanity 2.0 needs a reboot every few hundred years. A perpetually rolling revolution, always starting over in a new territory.

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