Our View of the World was simply made up

luka

luka

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COVID-19: The 4 building blocks of the Great Reset

The coronavirus pandemic has given us an opportunity to rethink how we see success, as well as our relationship with those who lead us.
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our view of the world was simply made up. And made up by a surprisingly small but depressingly influential number of individuals – from Machiavelli and Adam Smith, to Milton Friedman and William Golding. But if we made it up once, we can make it up again
 
linebaugh

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https://theweek.com/articles/854892/what-karl-rove-right-about-realitybased-community

The aide said that guys like me [Suskind] were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
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sus

sus

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tell me why this isn't recency bias

we've had worse pandemics in the 20th C and they din't chang nuthin

I just can't see it—what's the big upset? covid's a smoothie of Lyotarded performativity and Goodhartean surrogation, with some baseline coordination games happening.

and this Bregman stuff specifically is just a further evolution in a state of nature argument that predates Western civ. The truth is we don't know, and our best bet in experimental living is the libertarian wetdream of seasteading, not the top-down nat-economic of overhaulism with its failed modernist legacy of catastrophe and legibility larp'ing. that's not to say I advocate for libertarianism at the level of nationstate, but we Americans are born n bred with the concept of states as the "laboratory of democracy" and I must say it's worked out pretty well. start local, with a phase I trial, and slowly—through the opt-ins of others—expand the novelty
 
luka

luka

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the idea is that the pandemic is just cover and a way to crash the global economy leading to the great reset.
 
luka

luka

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there's two main directions you can take. one would be to discuss the Great Reset, what happens in the wake of the global econmy crashing (and we've been teased with the idea of universal credit for quite some time now, along with automation of work, global warming and eating insects for dinner) the other would be this lovely notion of the world being made up of a very small number of stories, and that if we change the stories we tell ourselves, our world changes in turn.
 
sus

sus

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didn't the global economy crash a decade ago and literally nothing happened

doesn't it crash every couple decades

I'm pretty new to this planet, this is only my second dip, but
 
sus

sus

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I don't mean to rain on this parade, it just seems very popular to imagine a new world order everytime there's a bump in the road. and this one seems relatively small as far as bumps go: it's (at least so far) appearing to be a natural catastrophe with (at least so far) a vaccine cure in the next couple months rolling out, i.e. things back to normal by mid 2021
 
luka

luka

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suspendedreason said:
didn't the global economy crash a decade ago and literally nothing happened

doesn't it crash every couple decades

I'm pretty new to this planet, this is only my second dip, but
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what im asking you to do is to lay aside this rather tedious part of your brain and to believe in the story
 
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