Quote: (09-30-2013 09:15 PM)basilransom Wrote:
Until they meet in person and take purposeful action, they are nothing but another generation of keyboard jockeys.
Define "purposeful action". Are we talking about protesting? Forming a political party? Actual violence? Military coup?
Moldbug has written about this, and I agree with him. There's no need for action right now. You act when you're strong, not when you're weak. If you're weak, you try to become strong. How? You just spread the neo-Carlylean mental virus and you wait until you have installed a new "operating system" in the brains of the young elites who will eventually rule the country.
Once the military elites (e.g., West Point, Annapolis), business elites (e.g., Harvard, Stanford), and technology elites (e.g., MIT, Caltech) have been seduced, you have an actual chance of changing something. Just wait a few decades till the cadets become generals, and the college graduates become CEO's.
The cleanest way to win this game is to change the brains of the young and wait for everyone older to eventually die. No need for violence.
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