ajuuiomml
7d ago
This is nuts! Law fare is the tried and true way of damaging US institutions to effect change.
ajuuiomml
13d ago
I disagree on the Chinese model. China wins by not allowing foreign companies to compete in its markets, stealing everything in sight, and subsidizing industry well below cost to purposefully drive under international competition (dumping). The rest of the world could win too, if it did that.
ajuuiomml
18d ago
they're complaining that the economy is doing poorly and getting worse, that they have no opportunity to advance
Is this not because this is the only source of meaning in their life? By and large, they have abandoned the Church, family (spouse, kids, often their parents), civic society (the mythology of the American Experience) and embraced the material as the principal metric of personal success and some form of nihilism as their guiding philosophy.
How could the framing of life you outlined possibly lead to peace? The Church’s paradigm is martyrdom in everything (serve God, love your neighbor and ignore life). Civil societies answer is to “ask what you can do for your country”. Family life offers “meaning through kids” - consider now, not only the rejection of having kids, but that someone could even be defined as their role as a parent! What did we replace those things with? Tinder, social media, college and a career for everyone…
I do not include manga in the classical tradition of drawing or painting. Digital is a different discipline. I’m not at all concerned with the production of artists, but I’m quite concerned with the loss of the discipline itself. People making digital art by and large can not paint in the western tradition. The same holds for the western tradition of music.
Peter Thiel of course! There is always some rich white guy with an axe to grind in practice.
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