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  • WWEconomics: Kayfabe and the Trade War

    Another Kyle Scanlon piece that doesn’t miss. She seems to have endless ability to create new terms out of pop culture and political slop that is excellent. It’s all designed to keep the crowd (the global public) engaged with a performance. Flood the zone, etc. https://kyla.substack.com/p/wweconomics-kayfabe-and-the-trade

  • The Other COVID Reckoning

    In the end people average out the whole subject to “Wait, you support charities? But didn’t you hear about that one that turned out to be corrupt? Can’t believe you’d be into something like that.” Short post from Scott Alexander on the most consequential thing about the virus itself being the least talked about thing:…

  • AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready?

    Humans are remarkably adaptable. We foraged and farmed, we built factories and spaceships, we wrote prayers, plays, poems, novels, and code. And now? Now we created this. As always, Tyler Cowen: https://substack.com/home/post/p-163411308?source=queue

  • Is Classical Liberalism for Losers

    https://www.thefp.com/p/tyler-cowen-is-classical-liberalism-for-losers Excellent piece on classical liberalism and its long game and influence over moments in history that have long impacts, e.g. the US Constitution. I think I have many classical liberal tendencies, leaning left. I counsel patience, and investment in good ideas and in talent, not a quest for power per se. What is truly…

  • Live Not by Lies

    https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies One to read over, and over again.

  • ‘Cry More Libs’ is not a Strategy

    https://www.thefp.com/p/rod-dreher-trump-enemies I’d read almost anything that’s self-critical of one’s own “party.” This should tell me what I need to know about my own ability (and responsibility) to do this. This was a striking paragraph:

  • The Emergency is Here

  • This is sin

  • The Long Now

    “The Long Now is the Fiat World of reality by declaration, where we are TOLD that inflation does not exist, where we are TOLD that wealth inequality and meager productivity and negative savings rates just “happen”, where we are TOLD that we must vote for ridiculous candidates to be a good Republican or a good Democrat, where…

  • MAGA Maoism

    An interesting and new framework for me on the “left-is-right and right-is-left” phenomenon that’s being revealed.