Nerd, Gamer, Weeb, Fighter, Musician, Supervillain.
Hates Partisan Politics, Neo-Cons and Cancel Culture.
Pro-Free Speech. All men and dogs are created equal!
This was written by a delusional, unethical narcissist with zero self-awareness or common sense.
I encountered many of these sociopaths while studying science and engineering, and they are the last people anyone should ever trust.
Because we get asked a lot.
The Technological Republic, in brief.
1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.
2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.
3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.
4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.
6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost.
7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way.
8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive.
9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed.
11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice.
12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin.
13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet.
14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war.
15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia.
16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn.
17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives.
18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.
19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.
20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim.
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.
22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska
https://t.co/8igjazz1On
Charlie Kirk was killed at a real interesting time.....
Im sure its just a coincidence but if he was alive today he would destroyed the Trump administration..
Just weird the moment the loudest voice wakes up its silenced
🚨 BOMBSHELL! France officially exposes a massive cyber attack! They confirm Israeli tech firm BlackCore orchestrated a malicious smear campaign to interfere in their elections.
This Zionist digital warfare also explicitly targeted New York's 2025 USA elections!
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
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BREAKING: Senator Tom Cotton has officially proposed a law that could merge Mossad and the CIA forever, with Section 622 of the Intelligence Authorization Bill making it illegal to suspend intelligence sharing with Israel.
🚨 BOMBSHELL! Sarah Matthews completely exposes massive Trump corruption on MS NOW.
She confirms Donald Trump bought UFC stock while hyping the White House event to personally profit. He throws lavish parties while Americans suffer from his disastrous inflation!
All the time Western mainstream media keeps telling us that the war in Ukraine was "unprovoked"
But then i listen to this leaked phone call between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, and realize I was just listening to a carefully fabricated lie.........
حاولت اسرائيل خداع العالم وإظهار أن الطبيب حسام أبو صفية بصحة جيدة عبر حلاقة وتصفيف شعره ولكن ولسوء حظهم تم كشف الحقيقة
أثار التعذيب الوحشي والضرب واضحة بشدة على جسده
فضح هذا الإرهاب واجب على كل حر حول العالم
Israeli defense minister, Katz unambiguously signaling to President Trump, and the American public, that Israel will not stop fighting in Lebanon, Gaza, or anywhere else. And it will continue to maintain independence to fight Iran going into the future, regardless of any deal, Trump signs – in other words, they will agree to no kind of ceasefire or end of war treaty.
We need to be crystal clear on this.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and the defense minister are flat out telling us they will do what they want no matter what President Trump wants.
It is clearly time for us to charge our own path, and leave Israel to do what it thinks is best for its country, and not be drawn into any future wars it starts. President Trump needs to be clear on that to everyone, especially Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Per Trump’s request, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20 year prison term for child sex trafficking, is now being given gourmet food and has been moved to a cushier location with minimul security.
He is also "still considering" a pardon.
You need to ask yourself why that is.
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“You’re the first human in our lives who’s been in the political arena to ever touch us.”