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Western Liberal Democracy is Winning, but Needs to Tidy Up a Few Things
Hooray for Western Liberal Democracies! Just when you thought that rigid Fascist-Nationalists like Putin, Jinping, and Trump were going to take over the world, Zelensky creates a fantastic advertisement for the kick-ass merits of good ol’ traditional American and European values (which seem to utilize smart/diverse people to create an overwhelming industrial war-machine). But hold on…can this last? Should we think about cleaning up around our rough edges?
Kind of surprising that for all the American and European entitlement/naughtiness, our missiles still work while the Russians’ go “pfffffft”, and the Chinese have their hands full with a perhaps not-sustainable lid on the internet/human rights. What’s going on here? Aren’t we supposed to be the weak and silly ones? I suspect that great minds tend towards the naughty (free-range minds?) and head West to design better computer chips assembled in factories staffed by a few immigrants, women, and LGBTers, which obliquely wins wars and provides a kind of self-correcting, possibly global warming/deficit solving machinery. But can it be sustained? Will Russia/China regroup and create a more tech-smart and manly fighting force using really smart Oligarchs and incredibly grateful slave labor? As Karl Marx said, will Capitalists sell us the rope with which to hang ourselves? Will…
