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Liberalism is the idea that man cries out to the cosmos “what is my purpose?” and the cosmos whispers back “masturbation”.
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Watching Xi Jinping's speech waiting for the part where he starts ranting and raving about dominating the world, but instead he just keeps talking about development goals and helping people to have a better life. Feel like I might have been misled about the nature of this regime.
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The mixing of elements in Putin's speech - anti-racism, anti-colonialism, anti-LGBT, traditionalism, patriotism, overt religiosity - makes Western right and left alike nervous and appears 'weird' to the Western eye, but is perfectly normal for the vast majority of the world.
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Biden just revealed that he spent his vice presidency traveling with Xi Jinping on a 17,000 mile epic journey to find the lost valley of Shangri-La and all people can do is mock him for stuttering.
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Geniuses: ”Conspiracies are not real, it’d be impossible to keep that stuff secret.”
Guy who worked on literal NWO-style conspiracy to insert population control messaging into popular TV shows openly recounting his experience in a freely available handbook for practitioners:
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My sources are telling me that Xi Jinping is now in prison but he will continue serving in all of his roles for a third term. This is because of the Chinese concept of 'saving face' (面子). They will carry on as if there has not been a coup in order to avoid embarrassment.
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There's astonishing hubris behind politicians telling people they can replace them with random foreigners and still have the same society.
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The real crisis of journalism is that you get more quality content following 50 interesting people who tweet in their spare time than from a try-hard company that employs 2,500 people and has 29 offices in a dozen different countries.
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What you think happens:
1. Consumers want stuff
2. Businesses meet demand
What actually happens:
1. Business discovers it can increase oatmeal production 1,000x
2. “What the hell are we going to do with all these oats?”
3. Global psyop to get people to eat cereal for breakfast
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tired: the apathetic youth
wired: a youth so engaged in current affairs and so learned in esoteric subjects their views have become incomprehensible, their tastes incapable of being satisfied, and their goals impossible, giving the outward appearance of apathy
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It just dawned on me that the American left actually thinks the United States is closer to achieving socialism than the People’s Republic of China and now so many things make sense.
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You timidly ask your sexbot for sex, she looks up from her smartphone and regards you with absolute disdain. "Can you switch me off first?"
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Navy SEALS are apparently using sensory deprivation tanks with neural and cardiac feedback to accelerate learning.
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Code is learning to write faster than journalists are learning to code.
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It's funny to think that Elon Musk is quite literally trying to restore liberalism to a save point from ~5 years ago.
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Xi Jinping launches war on homework. "The document ... offers 30 measures to rein in the education sector. They include steps to reduce homework load, raise education quality on services during and after school, and standardize education services."
New draft rules circulated today would force China’s private education companies to turn nonprofit. Share prices of tutoring companies plummeted, and some see the end of a highly lucrative industry.
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It's always the same. If a country is too big to be subordinated by the West, it needs to be broken up into more manageable chunks.
Russia doesn't need an Imperial Reboot. It needs a National Divorce. Moscow has absolute right on self determination, but I don't see why colonies should bound to its will, fund its imperial ambitions and shed their blood for the Russian World as they're doing it now
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This photo perfectly embodies America right now. Old, out of shape, resentful, pining over some long lost Cold War cause nobody else cares about, trying to sound tough but coming off as pathetic.
As a proponent of freedom, enjoying some Taiwanese dried pineapple. Checkmate.
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When you become President they reveal to you that in the late 90s an upgrade to the Tomahawk missile's flight control system caused it to become sentient and Tomahawk missiles have been striking targets for their own inscrutable reasons ever since. Your job is to cover for them.
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How the Left thinks Nazism happened: Not enough Leftist violence
How Nazism actually happened: Too much Leftist violence
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America's sovereign makes rare public decree.
We call for the peaceful transition of the U.S. government. The violence in Washington, D.C. tarnishes a two-century tradition of respect for the rule of law. We look forward to engaging with President-Elect Biden and his administration to move the nation forward.
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The pandemic ends and everyone comes out of isolation but they no longer have any enthusiasm for the ’normal’ world. Restaurants and bars open but sit empty. Cinemas announce the latest movies but nobody comes. The stadiums never fill. Students never return to their classes.
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Radical plan to solve sexual harassment: make sex only permissible in a specific relationship context that’s marked with a public ceremony.
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My source is an Australian expat with 20 years of experience in China. He knows the Chinese better than they know themselves. Locals go to him to ask him what Chinese characters mean because he knows the language better than they do.
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1. FBI commands 100s of agents to infiltrate Alt-Right
2. agents exposed to Alt-Right memes
3. memes spread through FBI like wildfire
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My prediction for 2021 is that nobody will learn anything from 2020.
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I hope India is paying attention to what’s happening in Europe. Being a US ‘ally’ means having no choice in where you can buy energy, who you can trade with, or where you can invest. It means being embroiled in proxy wars and being sabotaged and humiliated in front of the world.
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I wonder how many people would take the deal where your student debt gets canceled but your degree also gets canceled.
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It’s ridiculous that a civilization with our industrial capacity exhibits such a paucity of ambition. This is the real mystery of the modern world.
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I don't think 'political polarization' is the right term for what's happening in America. It's more like rhetorical hyperinflation. The rhetoric keeps getting more and more exaggerated precisely because the rhetoric no longer produces the kind of response it once did.
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Russia didn’t deploy its advanced ‘cyberwarfare’ and ‘disinformation’ methods because those things aren’t real. They’re stories concocted by Western governments to justify censoring the internet.
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"How did WW3 start?"
"We shot down a Russian jet in Syria."
"Why were we in Syria?"
"Nobody knows, son, nobody knows. Eat your twigs."
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Once you realize US politics (including self-styled 'radicalism') is created by marketing firms, everything makes a lot more sense.
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Jeff Bezos’s pathetic love texts have destroyed my image of him as an evil megalomaniac and I’ve lost all faith in Amazon. How can somebody that beta ensure my deliveries will arrive in time?
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America thinks Russia is in decline, Russia thinks America is in decline; China thinks America is in decline, America thinks China is in decline; America, Russia, and China all think Europe is decline, Europe agrees.
Andrey Kortunov identifies something that absolutely pervades the commentary you see out of Washington and Moscow: each side thinks the other’s civilization is essentially doomed. And for good reasons.
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“In China, they censor the internet, so people can‘t even perform the basic prerequisites for achieving socialism, like starting a podcast.”
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So the people claiming China must be lying about its numbers because America/Europe have more cases/deaths: Do they think every Chinese city and province is lying or just Wuhan? Do they think Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are lying? Are South Korea and Singapore lying?
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“In America, we’re just one good election outcome from achieving socialism whereas in China they can’t even vote so they can never achieve socialism.” This is what they actually think.
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The American ideology is carefully calibrated so that one and the same person can simultaneously:
1. Condemn past American actions
2. Uphold the American system
3. Enthusiastically support actions similar to the past actions they condemn in a new context
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The pandemic reduces each country to its essence.
My feed is filled with videos of Italian mayors cursing residents to get indoors, Brazilian cops chasing beachgoers away with a helicopter, an Iraqi man breaking up a gathering with a broom ... and Americans saying some old folks just might need to die to keep the markets open.
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“The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective”. This is hilarious.
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The America right is mad that Putin mentioned colonialism because their offer to the world is "the status quo but without rainbow flags" and the American left is fixated on Putin's anti-LGBT comments because their offer to the world is "the status quo but with rainbow flags".
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The global transfer of power is complete.
I can't believe an eagle appeared in the sky in Fuzhou😍😍
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Ah yes, we'd spontaneously organize ourselves in highly-trained, well-equipped units like this all the time when I was a student. Somebody would just say 'we need to do something!' and - bam! - we'd acquire helmets and gas masks, develop tactics, organize into teams.
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Need a word for reverse conspiracy guys who insist that events are never the product of intention.
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“Oh my God, the fascists came and they emptied out the bookstore and burnt all the books.”
“Oh no.”
“The pop psychology, astrology, yoga manuals, Reiki healing, self-improvement, celebrity biography, adult coloring books, YA novels... it’s all... just gone.”
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Nobody wants crypto, nobody wants AI, nobody wants 'the metaverse'.
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The idea that our elites are aliens who are gradually changing human culture to be more like their strange asexual, insect-eating culture is as good a hypothesis as any.
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Americans are convinced they're 'free' and live in a country totally unlike 'totalitarian China' because America's propagandists are spread out among offices and firms with different names rather than collected into a single, identifiable Propaganda Department.
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The fact that there's a conflict involving a nuclear power currently ongoing and the US is responding by provoking a second nuclear power and yet nobody of any significance is opposing the move, tells you everything you need to know about 'freedom' in the West.
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School was created to suppress the innate abilities of children. If the schools stay closed long enough, we will see the return of telekinesis.
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Last year I declared tech dead. Many objected. The only thing we got from Silicon Valley this year was Facebook changing its name. Tech is dead.
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Twitter represents the final 'disenchantment' of the world. We all assumed there was expertise somewhere. That some group of people must be holding it altogether. But no, it's idiots from top to bottom.
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2028: Women now all wear burkas and expose no flesh because they want to keep it as an OnlyFans exclusive.
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Did Biden and Xi discover the secret to longevity on their Tibetan quest? Is that why Xi ended term limits?
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If you take NATO rhetoric at face value it's the single most evil political entity to have ever existed. It is incapable of compromise, it can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with. It must simply expand without end, without reason, and without concern for outcome.
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“All anyone talks about now is the virus.” Yes, but don’t you see? The only reason they ever talked about anything else is because they were supplied with topics. The topic supply lines are among the first to breakdown in a crisis, shattering the illusion of individuality.
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AI is an existential threat but not because of the potential for ‘intelligence explosion’. We’re arriving at the ruling class’s end game of cryptographically encoding all knowledge and making it available only through oracles that share their ‘values’.
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The 'religious left' will be the next trend in American politics.
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Comedians like Gervais saying the 'unsayable' is a public ritual that gives the elite something to point to as proof of our 'freedom', even though they arranged for it, paid for it, vetted it, and approved it.
Ricky Gervais' speech is a reminder of the important role comedians play: ridiculing those who believe themselves above ridicule
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Basically, liberal democracy is wholly inadequate for running an industrialized society, so in the early 20th century the American ruling elite built a new government out of a network privately-owned non-profits and that has been running things ever since.
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"Good news, we're overthrowing your dictator!"
"What does that mean for me, the common man?"
"Worst case scenario, your nation plunges into decades-long chaos. Best case scenario, you end up with the divisive, moribund politics of a Western nation but none of its wealth."
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This isn't a joke, this is the most important announcement in US history.
BIDEN: "I was in the the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him, that's when I traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President. I don't know that for a fact."
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I wonder if America's declining ability to produce convincing propaganda and Hollywood's declining ability to produce coherent stories are related.
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The phenomenon of everyone instantly becoming an expert about the latest news event suggests that people in general have far less knowledge than what they say indicates. Most of the time we just repeat stuff we hear or read elsewhere.
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America is not just going to start building again. The whole of American culture has become oriented to the service economy. Finance, management, politics, public discourse, etc, all now serve the service economy. Nobody has a clue how to 'get back to building' again.
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American politics is the world's most popular American TV show.
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Putin's right that Ukraine is being colonized and for the benefit of the US. This is just what 'liberal democracy', 'civil society', etc, are. There is nothing else to them. More and more countries will come to this point of view as the US declines. This is just the start.
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The big cope with manufacturing is that it got outsourced to China because they have lax regulations. Once people try to bring manufacturing back, the reality sets in: it's hard to make stuff at scale. They weren't just outsourcing manufacturing, they were outsourcing governance.
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America is like a fractal of evil where the closer you look at anything, the more evil you uncover.
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To give an idea of just how dead Silicon Valley is, we enter the year 2020 with literally no new ‘tech trends’ that aren’t already a bust. ‘Tech’ is now synonymous with creepy monopolies.
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There is no equivalence between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Coca-Cola is the Real Thing. Pepsi isn’t. Coca-Cola Refreshes You Best. Pepsi doesn’t. Things Go Better With a Coke. Things don’t go better with a Pepsi.
There is no equivalence between the United States and China. We have rule of law. China doesn't. We have free speech. They don't. We defend religious freedom; China continues its decades-long war on faith. China ruthlessly imposes communism. The United States secures freedom.
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A political movement is labeled 'authoritarian' if it can't be integrated into the Anglo-American plutocracy's philanthropic network. That's the acid test.
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Gay men getting 'tightening surgery' for their blown-out rectums while Teen Vogue encourages children to have anal sex. That's our world.
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When celebrities disappear for long stints after exhibiting 'problematic behavior' in the US, they're said to have 'gone to rehab'. This refers to a sprawling network of reeducation camps funded by regime-linked private philanthropic organizations.
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Mass education is part of the intellectual property regime. The goal is to stop children learning anything useful and make them more dependent on ‘experts’ and ‘services’ in adulthood.
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Liberals like to emphasize the 'cultural impact' of colonialism because their 'solution' to the 'legacy of colonialism' is cultural and symbolic. This is because the material relation of colonial states to the West was retained and simply rebranded as the 'liberal world order'.
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Cyberpunk video games generating controversy because treating cyberpunk themes as dystopian is no longer politically correct was not a part of the dystopian cyberpunk future anyone could have predicted.
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2020: You get in your Google self-driving car, enter your desired destination, it takes you to a 'sponsored destination' instead.
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I was just attacked by some well-dressed young men in Yang 2020 hats, they beat me with their lacrosse sticks and yelled “humanity first!” What is happening to this country?!
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The lessons we took from WW2:
1. You always have to go to war because otherwise it's appeasement
2. Negotiation is impossible
3. Every non-allied leader seeks world domination
4. Our 'interests' are unlimited in scope, so the above applies to every potential conflict
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I suspect part of the reason tech bros are so susceptible to the ‘China is going to impose its digital panopticon on the world’ narrative is that they are complicit in imposing the actually existing American digital panopticon on the world.
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To understand liberal ideology, just look at it from the perspective of a developing country. You want modern technology, the source of the West's wealth and power, but the West wants you to control you. Liberal ideology aims to blur the boundaries between these two goals.
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If you look at the US 'empire' as a network of institutions, you can understand 'democratization' and 'state-building' through this lens. The goal is to create a political environment where US-affiliated institutions can gain entry and then to ensure that they set the agenda.
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Idea: Novel in which a loner who dreams of leaving society and living in a cabin in the woods stumbles on a forum for like-minded ’rugged individualists’ and discovers that they all dream of the exact same cabin. Eventually, they find out it’s from an 80s TV ad they’ve all seen.
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We're now at week 18 of the gilets jaunes protests.
Anytime you see protests in an 'illiberal' state held up as proof of discontent over the political system and a need for intervention, remind yourself that the French have been protesting for 18 weeks and nobody cares.
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Bluechecks getting psyopped hard right now. Set up for maximum disappointment and outrage when Ukraine falls. Election night 2016 energy.
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The real black pill is that politics became more ‘polarized’ because the internet makes propaganda 1,000x more effective than TV and print and the elites were not prepared for the kind of blind zealotry it would induce.
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How can a civilization survive if people DENY the difference between members of that civilization having children and foreigners coming in?
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The hysteria around this video is hilarious given that state-backed US NGOs have been inserting anti-natalist messaging into television programming for decades, not only in the US but all over the world.
this is trending on tik tok
pretty crazy how mass adopted the psy ops are
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"Learn to code" is so effective because it reminds journalists of their childhood struggles with basic arithmetic.
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Reading about 60s psychedelic culture. Struck by the fact that it’s just another recapitulation of liberalism. Subjectivism, self-determination, etc. This is how liberalism reproduces itself: every generation creates a new ‘rebellious’ vocabulary that makes the same basic claims.
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Journalism hasn't changed. It's just now you get to see the raw footage, unedited testimony, etc. Given this new information, it's important to go back and look at past controversies in a fresh light.
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2028: After China overtakes the US in GDP, the US replaces GDP with Gross National Freedom (GNF) and sets it to always be infinity.
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2038: All the media you consume is algorithmically generated. Everything is tailored to personal tastes. No two people ever read the same book, see the same movie. The world has diverged into billions of non-interacting traditions, every man a civilisation onto himself.
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A few months ago the ‘free press’ reported on how the US wasted trillions on a war with no goal and no strategy, much of it embezzled; nobody was held accountable and it was quickly forgotten. But please, tell me more about the wonders of the ‘free press’.
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