The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Max Stirner

It’s all hero worship, our civic tradition is (unintentionally?) very heavily based on The Great Man concept, Washington crossed the Potomac, not the people in the army, MLK won the right for civil rights, not the thousands of people working together for decades, etc etc

Luigi will save us (no, it will take all of us)

Fun fact: Power Causes Brain Damage

I just started that book like a week ago, Even just the first couple pages and it was like “oh… oh no”, even got the meta verse in there

Literally Snow Crash, each burb is a independent corpocity state

They tried a couple times but people just don’t really want to move to the middle of the ocean of a jungle compound in South America

This “plan” is literally the setting of Snow Crash

Scratch a liberal…

It also systematically intentionally forces the most vulnerable to be entirely dependent and aligned on capitalism

You can allocate your funds to international investments only

Moved mine to 100% international allocations on the 4th, up like 3% since then, highly recommend

Can’t wait to live in Snow Crash

just a surface observation, ya know?

Does it need to be more?

Actual look at Trump regime

Caring about other people in general really

Yes it was always performative but it was systemically targeted and dismantled by Robbie Starbuck (and his ilk) using boycotts (edit: and harassment) campaigns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robby_Starbuck

Nah man, this is recency bias, pre internet science was generally well regarded and respected. There is empirical evidence to support this even over just the last 10 years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/