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Jun 27

The year is 2050. Changing demographics have Latinamerica-fied your politics - like in Latin America western countries are now condemned to neverending lurching between two ideological extremes that then only further radicalise in reaction to each other. Which side do you choose?

America will fulfil its destiny and become the penultimate Latin American country in the Americas, before Canada which will first become a Subcontinental country and then a Latin American country after the Latinos move up into it from America. Trump is the first American Caudillo

https://twitter.com/waywardrabbler/status/1938715762212118760

This is the politics you get if you de-Basically Fine-ify your society with decades upon decades of Ideology-maxxing

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Jun 25

HOW NATIVES THINK - WHY MANY PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK SO IRRATIONALLY 🧵

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was an early 20th century French anthropologist writing before many of the taboos academic anthropology has accumulated today. In his book ‘How Natives Think’ he explores why so many people - and for him especially so many ‘non-civilised’ peoples - seem to be so superstitious. He tries to explain what it is that is happening inside the minds of (he calls them) ‘natives’ when, for example, they appear to have difficulty understanding causality in anything other than in terms of spirits or djinns. Though the work is not without its critics (eg it has been called reductive, eurocentric and generalising) it is an interesting example of taboo-free study on the ubiquity of a kind of magical thinking or djinnbrain

Lévy-Bruhl’s core claim is that so-called “primitive” peoples do not think illogically as such, but instead according to different rules. Reasoning is primarily shaped by emotion, symbolism and collective belief, not contradiction or empirical causation

That is, their thinking is guided by collective representations - shared mental images (like totems, taboos, spirits) that have a deep emotional force. See: the power of djinn in some societies (ie Djinnbrain). These guide thought and action without needing justification

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@kunley_drukpa

Jun 19

https://twitter.com/davidghfrost/status/1935756709298888836

New Article in the Telegraph on ‘The Yookay’ and my @MythoYookay page. “The "Yookay" now has a wider implication too: to suggest … we are now a new country, an actual successor state to the old Great Britain”

https://twitter.com/davidghfrost/status/1935756709298888836

Article is much more sympathetic than the articles in more left-leaning outlets. Somehow an easy enough concept to grasp when there is less bias

About the radical historical break the change represents

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@kunley_drukpa

Jun 17

REVIEWING EUROPEAN CITIES - ZAGREB 🇭🇷

Impressions from recent visit to Zagreb and the ways in which the city is and is not changing in the 2020’s 🧵

This is not a complaining thread, more just to describe Zagreb as it is today and the extent to which Zagreb is or is not changing. ‘TLDR’ - Zagreb is not as interesting VS Croatia’s coastal areas but it less touristy, a good ‘local’ city. Guest workers recently started to arrive

Don’t think visitors will ever really be blown away by Zagreb but it’s not a bad city. Very similar in layout and look to smaller capitals of other smaller Eastern European cities, eg Bratislava, Ljubljana, Sofia, Belgrade, Vilnius and so on. Wealthier than some of those at least

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Jun 4

BBC Journalist asks Danish Politician how Denmark is able to maintain trust in its Democracy - “Give voters what they want. If they want lower immigration lower it”

https://twitter.com/lucaajw/status/1930259960287400426

Advanced Techniques for Expert Democracy-Heads (Experts Only) to maintain trust in your Democratic System

• Release all data for transparency, even if the findings are uncomfortable
• If voters want lower immigration, lower immigration
• Don’t allow foreign ghettos to form

https://twitter.com/lucaajw/status/1930259960287400426

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Real Democracy Has Never Been Tried

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Jun 2

☸️ THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF SIKKIM

In the C19th and 20th large numbers of Nepali workers were settled in the Himalayan Kingdom of Sikkim, over time becoming a majority - this demographic change providing the impetus for the eventual dissolution of the historic Sikkim state 🧵

Sikkim, once a sovereign Himalayan kingdom, saw its tenability as a state dramatically contested by waves of Nepali migration - initially as labourers, but then as dominant political actors who transformed the state’s demographic and political character, eventually dissolving it

Old Sikkim was a Buddhist kingdom ruled by the Namgyal dynasty (1642–1975). The political system was feudal - led and upheld by the royal and spiritual authority of the Chogyal (king), with power shared among Bhutia aristocrats and local Lepcha chiefs under a theocratic-monarchy

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