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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      16/ ...Those who want to double down on it and get through to the other side of a world order solidly centered in digital, soft technologies

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      17/ So not just Putin and Trump, but Bernie too, and many other leaders on the nationalist side. On the cosmo side: mainly neoliberal MNCs

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      18/ "Election influence" thing is a sideshow not because undermining of liberal democratic institutions and process is not important but...

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      19/ ...but because retro-nationalists don't want to undermine them back to Stone Age, only to pre-digital form where they serve hard power

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      20/ Using adversary's frame is to lose before you start, so what's alt to the Surkovian frame (doesn't matter if attrib is apocryphal btw)

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      21/ It is to recognize that the way battle lines are drawn, to choose a *nation* to be loyal to is to already side with Putin-Trump axis

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      22/ Option 1 is "whatever comes after neoliberalism following logic of increasing global integration with soft power", call it Option X

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      23/ Option 2 is whatever emerges from an effort to rewind to 'great again' zero-sum economics. Call it Neomercantilism.

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      24/ You might not like this dichotomous framing of neomercantilism versus Option X (the 'other side of neoliberal transition era' thing)

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      25/ Perhaps you have your own fond visions of say a global social-welfare coalition or a Buddhist 'gross world happiness' optimizing order

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      26/ Unfortunately those options aren't on table. Nobody credible is working on anything meaningful in any direction besides the 2 big ones

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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          27/ How do you "play" for Option X? The key is to recognize that neomercantilism has *no* economic legs. It is an oil-economy endgame.

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          28/ Option X super-lever: "in the short run, the market is like a voting machine But in the long run, the market is like a weighing machine"

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