0xen 🎩
@0xen
With all their ideas, billions, power and influence, the thing that stings the most for the SF plutocrats is that at the end of the day they couldn't beat a few hundred acid damaged hippies for control or win hearts and minds of a singe city. They failed. An astonishing and embarrassing defeat. They can't lead so they seethe, sow division, deflect, and finally dream up fantastical escape hatches, someplace new and safe where they can be free from all bogies, someplace they can escape their own failure. This time will be different, right?
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
I think Balaji is directionally right about economic fragility. But I have trouble buying into the decline of the west rise of the east narrative. China seems like a mirage. Their numbers I straight up don’t believe. Their cultural makeup doesn’t allow for the risk taking required by innovation. The seat of power in the west is the economic domination to which even the military serves. That hasn’t changed. But I enjoy reading his thought because it’s different and he could be right and I could be wrong. So it always feels like I’m learning.
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
he makes good points sometimes but the reason you'll never hear anything good about the US coming from him is that he needs people to think that the west is failing for the network state to be viable.
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
West doesn’t need to fail for network state imo anyway
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
it doesn't and won't but it needs that narrative otherwise, why bother?
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Fio
@fiodar.eth
because, as I understand, the network state isn‘t particularly bound to the collapse of the west, but rather the collapse of nation states (?) and from this perspective, it doesn‘t matter if it‘s the west or east that fails
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Syed Shah🏴☠️🌊
@syed
I don't think it's pushing a narrative. I think that's inverting it. He doesn't need the narrative of west failing for network states. He believes based on his data that the west failing is imminent and network states are a solution he is excited by. For the record I don't think he's wrong. I just think as bad as the west has it, the others have it worst. But he makes a compelling case for; "but they rebound the quickest".
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