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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Mar 2018
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    New #breakingsmart The Splintering of the Second World:http://mailchi.mp/ribbonfarm/the-splintering-of-the-second-world …

    1:38 PM - 2 Mar 2018
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    • Startup🚀Sanatana(स्टार्टप्🚀सनातन) Mark Burlton Tejash Patel Robert Miller evan 💎 Josh Mize Phalgun Edwin Rager Ravi Narayan
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      1. Bob‏ @BeltwayBobby 2 Mar 2018
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        Great piece. Be interested to hear more of your thoughts on the cultural openness of Europe in light of Brexit, refugee crisis, etc

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      2. Jason‏ @jasonroy_miller 2 Mar 2018
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        This reminds me of an old Burial quote from 2006 about how scenes in dance music coalesce around a particular sound and then disperse as everyone looks for the next frontier. This is before dubstep transformed into the skrillex stuffpic.twitter.com/xiyth6HyNC

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      3. Jason‏ @jasonroy_miller 2 Mar 2018
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        I don’t know what you think of Strauss-Howe theory but what you describe does sound like an Unraveling to me

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      2. Artem Litvinovich‏ @theartlav 2 Mar 2018
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        Are there supposed to be images in these? I had none show up in the last few.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Mar 2018
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        Yes. Turn on images in gmail? Does the direct link show image for you?

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      2. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 2 Mar 2018
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        Fwded it to my cuz who immi'd in 1987. His response: Not sure US ever had any cultural openness. Even if it did, it was mostly WASP. Eating 🍣 + doing🧘🏼‍♀️ != cultural openness. More like cultural pastimes. What it does represent is economic openness. That is its greatness.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Mar 2018
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        I think your cousin is wrong :) Wasp culture is in fact among the least open. The separation between economic and cultural openness is meaningless. Not surprisingly we’re seeing both kinds of closing up now together.

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      2. PreemptPlacebo‏ @PreemptPlacebo 2 Mar 2018
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        The newly graduated Indian physician who recently moved in upstairs did not say she relocated to America. She relocated to "California". I get the impression she believes the visa bureaucracy, the pre-flight scanners and the militarized immigration were a different country.

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      3. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 2 Mar 2018
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        I noticed this 25 years ago when spending time as a teenager in France. Being from the US was not impressive ("lol hamburgers") but being from California was like stepping straight out of the Marvel universe.

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      2. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 2 Mar 2018
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        re. 28 (The downside is that due to loss of the benefits of concentration of creative capital, evolutionary pace overall will be slower. Human efforts at evolution spread too thin.) Am I just talking my book to think that a virtual place could eventually fit this bill?

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      3. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 2 Mar 2018
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        ...because 33 is 🎯 (The retreat of the US from its role as the world's frontier, and the loss of a True West for growth-oriented individuals, is undeniably depressing in the short term) / Not unrelated, I've been developing a peculiar fascination with Chile over the past 18 mos.

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