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    1. 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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      29/ Here "market" broadly includes all forms of "voting/weighing" dynamics. The thing that is structurally immune to bullshit over long term

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      30/ So long as there is economic *continuity*, time is a friend for Option X and an enemy for neomercanitilism

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      31/ To bring it back around to starting point of the riff, points 1/ and 2/, this is not a contest of *national* exceptionalist narratives

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      32/ It isn't Trumpian American exceptionalism to 1950s MAGA state versus Putin-Surkov exceptionalism rewinding to Eastern Roman Empire.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      33/ It is about global exceptionalism. Those who believe there was something exceptionally good about Westphalian nation-state order...

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      34/ ... versus those who believe there is something exceptional about the post-digital, soft-power based cosmopolitan post-Westphalian order

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    10. Nils Gilman‏ @nils_gilman 8 Jan 2017
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      So the choice is between (a) the false memories of world we can never regain, and (b) the utopian dreams of a world we can never reach?

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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      'slouching towards utopia' ...a pragmatic directional commitment to an improving pattern of improvement, not an end-state

      12:26 PM - 8 Jan 2017
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        2. tonyjoyce‏ @tonyjoyce 8 Jan 2017
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          this sounds like return to the Cold War logic of a few strong states acting thru proxy conflicts over various resources? @nils_gilman

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 8 Jan 2017
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          not quite, Cold War 2 is genuinely multilateral rather than bipolar

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