The US government has already named its replacements. By sending manufacturing overseas, the future of hard power is CCP. And by printing trillions of dollars, the future of hard money is BTC.
The BTC point is well debated. On the CCP point, Brose is the former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee. By his account he could see every line item of America's $700B defense budget, including confidential parts.
Third, wokes rely entirely on soft power. Once they have no economic influence over a group, they have nothing left. So they are reduced to impotent pleading.
See their interaction with Taliban and CCP, but also France (AUKUS) and Germany (Nord Stream 2). thehill.com/policy/interna…
Basically, so long as you are within the same social network as the wokes, you are vulnerable. They’ll try to impose economic sanctions, ie cancel you.
But once you are outside that they aren’t good at persuasion or building or fighting. So you are largely immune to them.
Thus, the goal is to become completely independent of them in your social network supply chain. Do not befriend wokes, do not accept funds from them. Go global or rural, but go independent of them at all costs.
You reverse the direction of sanction: cancel them first.
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Moderately bullish on India, extremely bullish on Indians.
Why? The Indian state itself is generally on the way up (see below), but it's often two steps forward and one step back.
However, it's now good enough to be a launchpad for globally competitive Indians — to achieve both within India, and outside it. tigerfeathers.substack.com/p/the-internet…
The internet works, the power is on. That's all we needed to rise.
But I don't think there's any point in going for the US national government. It is on track to notch world-historical defeats on both economic and military matters. Capturing it is catching a falling knife. Instead, focus on DAOs and startup cities worldwide.
If you believe the premises, you believe the conclusion.
What's up? Tech, Bitcoin, China, India.
What's down? US economic, military, and demographic predominance.
Christian Brose is the former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee. By his own account he could see every line item of America's $700B defense budget, including all the confidential bits.
"Swallowing the fait-accompli may become the leitmotif of U.S. decline even though acceptable political rhetoric will never allow it to be confessed openly." issforum.org/roundtables/po…
Maier: "In the long run the US is unlikely to overcome the assertiveness of China...Rather than insisting on global leadership, the task of the US should be to manage America’s relative decline in a multipolar system without military conflict." issforum.org/roundtables/po…
When you hear the alternative view, you realize why you don't hear the alternative view.
The numbers are the raw data
Dashboards are presentations thereof
Subjective text accompanies dashboards
Monetizable actions alongside that text
Seems obvious, and already happening, yet also an important lens on what useful information looks like.
Newspapers usually leave their call to action implicit. But it's often "get angry at this guy", then "subscribe now".
The alternative concept of calls-to-action alongside dashboards is interesting. Every action recommended would be explicit, vetted, and possibly monetized.