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I'm surprised the book Sovereign Individual is not mentioned even once in this article. The whole book engages in the same "projecting trends into the future",

I'm surprised the book Sovereign Individual is not mentioned even once in this article. The whole book engages in the same "projecting trends into the future", on the same topic. But in a more detailed way. In fact, one of the early points it makes is that the Roman Empire, when the last emperor gave way to a tribe lord that invaded Rome, officially when the empire fell, everyone pretended it didn't. Like the emperor is out, he's living somewhere else, but yeah the empire keeps going, nothing to see here. Only years later, decades if I recall correctly, did the implications of the fall of the empire truly reached culture. The shell was untouched, but the insides were rot already.

gipp 3y ago
I'm already starting to feel a big "who cares?" When it comes to the federal government in general. Everything's so calcified it feels like they're barely keeping the lights on. How many debt ceiling "crises" have completely paralyzed Congress for weeks, just in the last few years? The media barely even bothers to report on them anymore. And the rest of their time seems to be occupied by infighting or attempts at pointless symbolic dunks on the other side. For all the talk of the "deep state" it generally feels like the career bureaucrats are the only ones doing any actual governing anymore. Eventually the whole thing's just going to get too brittle to hang together. Anyway I know this is almost totally fact-free, but that's just where I'm at now. Who the hell cares who's president?