The End of US Democracy

0: I dislike political sides-ism extreme rhetorical tone because it reinforces divided and conquered political gamesmanship rather than addressing an almost universally-greater concern: that ordinary people are so easily set against one another by very few, small cadres of excessively rich+powerful people and their helpers in mass media and political figureheads.

1: I dislike fatalism/doomerism because it reinforces learned helplessness and assumes absence of agency. (And I also detest accelerationism.) No empire/established/civilization is irreversibly doomed to decline or dissolution if the cycle of corruption, power accretion, and/or mismanagement that may occur as a macro trend in a cycle, orthogonal to political parties, can be interrupted and reset. FDR did this once and someone like him can do it again. It's important to read and learn from historical examples of how other empires failed and to avoid rhyming historical patterns of unnecessary chaos.

Suggested reading:

- The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss

- The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson

And a singularity just in time. There will be reprucussions. Any quick change has more massive consequences than something long term, but it’s more of a shockwave of imbalance, as the AI systems begin creating butterfly effects in society that gives it regional, continental, then finally global domination over world militaries, and we give rise to an era which becomes a rollercoaster of amusement for which only AI can control over different societies to keep even small groups of three people in check, yet using tactics fabricated from timelines that other AI agents place bets on. And ecosystem of human states. That’s what we are in. and we’re just in for indescribable circumstances

Hug of Death for me:

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