Geopolitics

This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose

Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.

The premise is flawed because the US is no longer a liberal democracy, it's an oligarchy/plutocracy and an inefficient one at that

Not surprising that system may lose in competition with a more systematic, organized form of command-and-control economy that doesn't need to maintain a facade

Got to similar conclusions so far, really looks like one to me - because of how little choice people have and all those institutions like SEC and others that highly benefit certain kinds of people vs most of the country

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AF: https://www.alfafrens.com/channel/0xCE64705563D0E6247e06D171f858115689EB6e66

Stepping back from "liberal democracy" for a second, I think it's hard to dispute that the US does actually have "meme pluralism". There's two major tribes that push very incompatible memes, and there's further complexity on top, including a very mainstream elite contingent that believes US liberal democracy is fake.

Eh, the two tribes actually have a lot more in common than the media and conventional wisdom would have you believe

https://warpcast.com/vitalik.eth/0xf3df02f7