Venkatesh Rao on Twitter: "Chaos is necessary, but not sufficient, for a reboot. 99% of the time, chaos triggers collapses, intense misery, and *permanent* decline..."

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1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
  
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  ...1% of the time, they trigger reboots and renaissances. You really want to play those odds? That makes you a true, extreme sociopath.
  
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1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
  
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  you dying of starvation while forced to do a long march? You fighting on the streets like Syrians? Living in a gulag?
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1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
  
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  damn right relativism. I have no patience for snowflakes nursing minor resentments and inconveniences into destruction motives
  
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1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 28 Sep 2016
  
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  people without imagination love to see inevitabilities where none exist. The seduction of depressives by Hegelian historicism
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1. Walt ‏ @WaltFrench 28 Sep 2016
  
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  Ugh…how reductive. What about principles of civil society? Trashing them isn't just a recipe for utter ruin—it defines itpic.twitter.com/aIr37eczCw
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