Constantly waiting on both the left and the right to figure out the future is high tech enabled merchant city states where they can both run things according to their own ideology while keeping trade lines open with each other and not whatever bullshit ass tyranny they both want to do to each other.

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Have you ever read The Machinery of Freedom?

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

I like the bit on Chesterton at the end.

Vision 2030 🇰🇪💯

I suspect part of the transition to this may require a doctrinal shift around force posture that pivots more toward allowing allies to unilaterally impose cost rather than the US becoming entangled in a strategy of denial. I am thinking about the weapons that align with this transition at the nation state level, which then will lead to trickle down decentralization over time.

I suspect it may be impossible for it to be grassrooted bottom up with communes: El Salvador, Prospera, Solano, etc, which of course are not taken seriously in their own right, for cities will not effectively defy states, nor are they currently able to defend their territory against a centralized hegemon, so no one will truly defect even if they signal conditional interest.

It will likely be many decades of international decoupling at the conventional layer, with a shift toward cost imposition as a stable deterrent, which will help the world realize the strategy of denial against tyranny fails in securing liberty.

don't hold your breath

Waiting for Godot 🤣😂

The problem is how far the left has jumped the shark.

At dinner this evening my Mom said she hopes Newsom becomes President.

I said why so the whole county can burn and everyone can be homeless we already have the largest homeless population in the country….and then he can launder the entire National budget to his wife’s NGOs, then open the borders and hand over all of our tax money to fund welfare for illegal aliens and then instead of just CA being a sanctuary state for trans youth, he can trans all the little babies across the country!

I went too far. That didn’t go over well… I can’t really understand why though it’s not a secret that he’s done literally ALL of these things in California. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Fuk Newsom

citadels

The HOA as citadel*