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While I agree with a good amount of this article, please consider a couple of critiques that kind of frustrate its credibility for someone like myself.

Basically everything you say about Nirvana is wrong. I think you're remembering Metallica. Definitely a band with a different style and cultural allegiance.

I find it interesting that you mention End of History but not Clash of Civilizations. Isn't that the writing from that time that's become prescient in this regard? Fighting the war Huntington describes can account for the vast majority of the national debt.

We found Den's weakness. Rock music history!

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it's a shame, really... can't appreciate the boomers' music!

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Boomer music? I wish. I was almost middle aged when Nirvana was singing about teen spirit.

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Breastfed on neoliberal mythology.
It seems a pandemic occurred wiping out understanding of significant cultural heritage and values.
Maybe in part why China now directs the future.

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The bot actually has a point…

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I won't hold my breathe waiting for you to acknowledge the economic, strategic and ethical consequences of climate change!

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HAAAAAHA thanks lol! How irreverent of, no wonder this never made it off the drawing board<3

Very awkward errors

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Tangential, but have you ever read The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria? I’m kind of shocked that we don’t hear about that take more on stacker.news. Just dig the subtitle to get a feel for the book…

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that's a sexy title indeed... And no, never heard of. What's the TLDR?

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140 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb 10 Apr

Of the enlightenment ideals, liberalism is far more valuable to human flourishing than democracy. The world and history are full of many liberal, competent governments that are undemocratic, and many tyrannical and/or incompetent governments that are democratic. Democracy without extreme safeguards (constitution, checks and balances) will lead to both tyranny, mediocrity, and idiocy. He also extends the idea to institutions outside of the state like companies, religious institutions, and social groups.

It came out about three years before Idiocracy, and I’d kill to know if Mike Judge read it before making that movie.

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oh beautifullllllll... basically tear apart the term "liberal democracy" and make it a 2-by-2 matrix

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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 10 Apr

yup, that’s actually the subtitle - illiberal democracy at home and abroad

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a decade before Victor Orbán reclaimed the term! HOW NEAT

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