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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Within a century it hit material prosperity unseen anywhere, anytime. The experiment almost seemed to be working.
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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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@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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@Truth_Quest30 I don't think he'll win. It just pisses me off that he even has as much support as he does. - 2 more replies
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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 -
@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 - 14 more replies
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@vgr take a look @ gerald horne's counterrevolution of 1776: http://nyupress.org/books/9781479893409/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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