one of the most important attribites of the post Nazi world was the Hague trials, where mid level Nazis, who were "just following orders", had to pay the price for what they were involved in.

It is my hope, that at some point we will see a "digital hague" for Silicon Valley woke progessives who built and unleashed the absolute psychopathy we've seen over the last decade. There needs to be consequences for what they did. They should not be able to just move to New Zealand and hide, or claim they were "just following orders".

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I'm not sure human civilization has developed sufficiently to create legal paradigms for crimes against humanity that aren't evidenced by p2p murder. Ralph Lemkin tried to do this in his book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe which coined the term Genocide (he may have used it earlier but still) and where it's definition does not require murder but only implementing structures to undermine the thriving of a particular people such that they dissapear from earth. He differentiated mass murder from genocide because whereas lots of murder is bad for those people, removing an entire culture from existence is a crime against all of humanity. Today, that nuance is largely missing from the zeitgeist and so I doubt we will see any grassroots and adopted movement to make people who commit, let's say "Genocide by Meme," accountable.

ROPE

The recent conversation with Mark Goodwin and Danny Knowles has opened up a new set of questions and expanded the rabbit hole for me. I’m going to have to research it more before I can draw any conclusions, but Silicon Valley is pretty clearly an epicenter of duplicitous, contradictory shit. Feeling a lot like Sauron before he was fully malintent.