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Social Media is American Glasnost, Cryptocurrency is American Perestroika There are two particular ways that the internet increases variance worth noting: social media and digital currency. Social media increases social volatility. You can go viral or get canceled, experiencing large overnight gains138 or losses in status. Digital currency

To paraphrase Orwell, without a quantitatively accurate record of the past you cannot control the future, in the sense that your control theory literally won’t work.

So long as those holders don’t sell their Bitcoin, that’s a fundamentally new international support network of a kind that MAGA Republicans don’t have.

the computer always gives the same output given the same input code, unlike the fallible human judiciary with its error-prone (or politicized) enforcement of the law.

The US establishment has the opposite set of constraints: unlike China, it doesn’t face organized military opposition abroad, so it’s highly incautious in its foreign policy. But also unlike the CCP it does face organized domestic political opposition at home, so it can’t be as ruthless domestically as it wants to be.

Anyway, the problem isn’t just the asymmetry of the “accountability” — that’s not really about hypocrisy, but hierarchy. The problem with America’s left-authoritarians is also that they’ve built a terrible culture. A society that puts Watergate on a pedestal is just fundamentally different from one that puts NASA (or SpaceX) on a pedestal. Because

There are right and left varieties of each, though they overlap. Left transhumanists like Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum to some extent give rise to right anarcho-primitivists, and vice versa. Basically, left transhumanists make changes to the human body that rightists find aesthetically unappealing. Conversely, right transhumanists

Red State vs Red Network We now see that the God, State, and Network Leviathans all have their supporters within the conservative movement.