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Doug Garnett's avatar

Good points. As to Andreessen and the other tech revolutionaries... I know the tech bro's love the myth of creative destruction. Seems to me, though, that there's a difference between society rebuilding creatively in the aftermath of disaster and tech bros creating disaster thinking that it will force something good to emerge. Revolution by intent, after all, replaces what is thoroughly mediocre with things truly terrible.

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Jim KABLE's avatar

I'm a fan of Cameron Murray (with Paul Frijters and Game of Mates).

Pygmalion - class and accent - the two Ronnies with John Cleese used to do it to perfection - but what a sad thing that worth was ever based on an accent - on a class marker only truly really significant with the existence of the BBC (and here - in like manner - with the ABC). Science News - very interesting. Other matters - Fauci et al - Covid origins - no real surprises! The China blame game was begun though really the culprit - US-funded labs in Wuhan...

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James Borden's avatar

I think "kayfabe" is just Eric Weinstein's term for what left-wing bloggers used to call "kabuki" (i.e. insincere performance by a politician who is supposed to be on one's "side") and what I think Klein/Thompson described as a "political order" that both parties accept the legitimacy of (i.e. Eisenhower accepted the New Deal order when he was in power)

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Nicholas Gruen's avatar

Weinstein is going for something more than that. And Donald Trump is obviously more than that.

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James Borden's avatar

There is no question that Trump understands kayfabe. Whether he can govern in it depends on how much he thinks he can warp actual reality to his whims or willingness to use brute force.

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James Borden's avatar

(I was saddened by this entire post. It seemed that the task of the #resistance was simple to understand that liberalism had to be fought for all over again as Noah Smith wrote in his post but it may require different kinds of thinking)

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Nicholas Gruen's avatar

Which post — unfortunately the format makes it difficult for me to tell what you're referring to here.

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Nicholas Gruen's avatar

Yep, like they used to say in the RSL, "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance".

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