We are becoming overly dependent on a strategic rival — China
An issue is that we are outsourcing our Economic life-blood to China, our manufacturing
Directors of companies have a duty to shareholders to do whatever is in their best interest, which is produce things cheaply, which is possible in China. This is the opposite of what is good for the US as a nation, but that doesn't weigh into decisions.
Everything in America assumes growth — planned obsolescence fakes growth, we become dependent on non-sense. Society is not wired to exist in steady state
Even you say Donald Trump is stupid, you can't just assume the opposite of what he does is smart
Selective amplification is dangerous, that is why Eric Weinstein won't go on Fox News
There is massive insulation between the internet and the mainstream news
The majority are content to laugh at the bafoonery of the mainstream media and know that in fact they are right and the media is wrong. The media is fine with that because they still control many of the important levers
The government lied to us to get us to buy fewer masks so healthcare workers would have more because they are terrified of triage deaths. Deaths that are their fault for not having enough of a stock-pile. If civilians die it is not their fault.
The lesson of pass-over — when it is time to leave it is time to leave, don't wait for the bread to rise. The people who waited are no longer around and have no descendants. We are around because we left when it was time to leave
You have to be a follower to be a leader and a leader to be a follower
The argument to not use masks because you could contaminate it with your hand is like the argument to not use seatbelts because they could entangle you when your car crashes into a lake. Focusing on the low probability is illogical.
"Steady hands" someone who will do the wrong thing in any situation to protect the people at the top
When Klobuchar dropped out, any of the 5 candidates would have been the oldest president at inauguration — all born between 1941 and 1949
There is the rebel end of corporate and the corporate end of rebel, they are incredibly important because they communicate with each other and are the nexus of the two
There are two options: