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my belief is that if you live in a society where a large amount of people are dependent on foodbanks, and people chose to go without electricity just to be able to eat - and that same society is incapable of building new nuclear plants, then what you are living in is a society that is a failure at some fundamental level that modernity requires. therefore you are living in a society that will LOSE.
the struggle against superstition, ignorance and delusion didnt go far enough with the enlightenment. when i look at the music and culture of people in england i give myself confirmation bias. you have urban left wing people, who are supposed to be at the cutting edge, dreaming of agrarian hippie fantasies and opening organic food co-ops.
left politicians have literally dismantled most of the countries energy infrastructure because they are the special righteous defenders of the green earth against global warming.
its not that we dont have the technical capacity or the riches to build the plants, its that we cant do it. the state and the private sector are not working in harmony and we lack the capacity to bring harmony to this because the efficacious modulations our ideology could produce have reached their limit.
the asian model just works better.
meanwhile we have neo liberals arguing with people who never got over the fall of the soviet union.
we're going to get beat by the east and part of me thinks - fuck it, we deserve it. it would be novel for US to be the ones crushed by progress and history for the first time in centuries.
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