In markets and politics, we’re approaching the limits of Fiat World, where reality is declared rather than experienced. You can redefine ‘unconditional surrender’ all you want, but you can’t just deny the existence of a credit default or a refinery explosion.
Many older folks (even many in their 30s who haven’t set foot on campus in years) don’t grasp this & may never: our politics are about to get *far more radical *economically in the coming years, on both the left & the right. Zohran is a sneak preview. You don’t have to like it. It’s coming regardless. You’ve been warned. Get ready.
Paraphrasing a locked account I saw this quote tweeted on, but Trump is shilling his most unpopular piece of legislation of all time, and just bombed Iran (also widely hated). Dem leadership spending any amount of time smearing Zohran right now tells you all you need to know
It rules being in the last generation to learn anything in an already disturbingly illiterate time. If you’re a book-reader born before 1997 you get to be a genius for the rest of your life
@nkulw It will be accelerated - there’s no real growth engine, labor replacing technology is already being adopted, and the lead for development of the next century’s industrial production efforts is already lost - ✌🏾
People are never going to admit it - or possibly never going to grasp it - but the inevitable byproduct of us allowing years of faux-activism, pseudo-intellectualism, brand-building, and grift disguised as collective uplift to escape real public scrutiny is this naked buffoonery.
February 2051: Brendan and Noah drop the trailer for season 32 of @blowbackpod. It opens with a 5 second clip from this exchange. Trailer ends with Azov terror attacks.