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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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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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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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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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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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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Humanity 2.0 is now fully backward compatible with Humanity 1.0 and incompatible features are being turned off.
