Jesus Christ El Chinito. This is almost too much disappointing history for one day.
TheWastelander said;
"It's incredible to think that we might be brought down by an ideological weapon invented by a long dead tyrant. It's like being bitten by a venomous snake. Yeah, you can kill him when he's biting you but the venom's already in you and it's gonna get you eventually."
This really serves as a lesson to me that we as a nation have made ourselves generational victims to decades long bad habits. Naiveté and failure of vetting or dissecting complex ideologies has caught up to us badly. If it ever rang true to me that "our policies of freedom have made us victim to tyranny" this was it, and I always thought that statement was ridiculous.
Samseau said;
"Of course this is an absolute worst-case scenario, and it can be avoided if Cultural Marxism can be dismantled. The only question is if it will be done before society disintegrates to the point where the hard, and violent, right, becomes a viable political alternative for ordinary people."
Nassem Taleb has been on a twitter rant the last month about extremism and cultural Marxism, namely on his view that more 'virulent strains' are less damaging in a long term context. He used the USSR's current day politics regarding communism as an example, juxtaposing Russia with USA's socialism-lite.
My view may be unreasonably cynical, but with what I know about the world via my experiences and of this country I think we are doomed for the worst, leftist, police state of fascism in this century or the most barbaric coup d etat in addition to a massive war.
This is the final chapter when zero sum politics are played out in a two party political system. All that ideological 'arms racing' leads to real world explosive consequences when large sectors of society are marginalized beyond function, whichever direction it's going.
TheWastelander said;
"It's incredible to think that we might be brought down by an ideological weapon invented by a long dead tyrant. It's like being bitten by a venomous snake. Yeah, you can kill him when he's biting you but the venom's already in you and it's gonna get you eventually."
This really serves as a lesson to me that we as a nation have made ourselves generational victims to decades long bad habits. Naiveté and failure of vetting or dissecting complex ideologies has caught up to us badly. If it ever rang true to me that "our policies of freedom have made us victim to tyranny" this was it, and I always thought that statement was ridiculous.
Samseau said;
"Of course this is an absolute worst-case scenario, and it can be avoided if Cultural Marxism can be dismantled. The only question is if it will be done before society disintegrates to the point where the hard, and violent, right, becomes a viable political alternative for ordinary people."
Nassem Taleb has been on a twitter rant the last month about extremism and cultural Marxism, namely on his view that more 'virulent strains' are less damaging in a long term context. He used the USSR's current day politics regarding communism as an example, juxtaposing Russia with USA's socialism-lite.
My view may be unreasonably cynical, but with what I know about the world via my experiences and of this country I think we are doomed for the worst, leftist, police state of fascism in this century or the most barbaric coup d etat in addition to a massive war.
This is the final chapter when zero sum politics are played out in a two party political system. All that ideological 'arms racing' leads to real world explosive consequences when large sectors of society are marginalized beyond function, whichever direction it's going.