Thread by @ClaireBerlinski

He predicts it will end in a violent revolution.

"It's possible that we may already be too defeated and opiated by the market to mount a revolution."

"The best case scenario is a hyper-stratified society like something out of The Hunger Games or Guatemala with an occasional mass shooting."

"This viewpoint may strike some as extreme."

A bit.

But consider, he says, that large unemployed groups of men are [pretty much always and everywhere bad news], and we have more firearms per person than any society in the history of man.

True.

This very much seems to have been written by a guy who plays a lot of video games.

The Revolution will "be born of race and identity," and guess how it will shake out, given that Jews and Asians will be a disproportionate number of the elite and African Americans and Latinos will be a disproportionate number of the "less privileged."

"Less privileged whites may be more likely to blame people of color, immigrants, or shifting cultural norms for their diminishing stature and shattered communities."

"This is already happening."

Poor whites will join militias, white nationalist gangs, and bunkers in the woods."

There will be more random mass shootings as middle-aged white men self-destruct.

"As the mindset of scarcity spreads and deepens, people's executive function will erode."

"Contributing to the discord will be a climate that equates opposing ideas or speech to violence and hate. Righteousness can fuel abhorrent behavior."

California could secede.

The truckers, inspired by social media, begin to protest in state capitals. The National Guard is activated. The militias say, "This is our chance" and arrive to support the truckers.

Sohrab Ahmari pens a stirring denunciation of splitters and right-deviationists in First Things.

(I added that. But Yang really says everything up to that.)

Locals take advantage of police preoccupation and start looting. Hundreds of thousands of people stop paying taxes. A man in a bunker releases a video saying, "Come get your taxes, IRS man!"

Anti-Semitic violence breaks out against the people who "own the robots." A white nationalist party wins several states in the South. Protests and sit-ins on campus. Someone shoots up a tech company.

Employees are too afraid to come to work. Tech companies move to Vancouver. The California secession movement surges.

"Maybe the scenario I sketched above seems unlikely. To me, it seems depressingly plausible."

(I hate to say it, but it does.)

"When you're left with no other options, the unthinkable becomes necessary." He concedes that he's been a bit negative until now, but "the opportunities ahead will be vast."

End chapter.