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by clock_tower 11y ago
Iraq after the invasion sort of was. No civil society existed, but there were plenty of bands of guerillas and local religious extremists who'd been fighting Saddam; they inherited the state when we destroyed the Baathists. (The CPA tr
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by clock_tower 11y ago
I'm 99% sure that nsxwolf was being sarcastic with that comment.
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by clock_tower 11y ago
In this case, population isn't close to carrying capacity, but is following that curve anyways.
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by clock_tower 11y ago
These are two different issues -- democracy and human rights. There's nothing wrong with having a king, for example; but there's something very wrong with state-mandated infanticide -- and it would be just as wrong if it was impos
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by clock_tower 11y ago
Art as a joke at the expense of art-buyers? I never thought of that angle, but it does make sense.
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by clock_tower 11y ago
Interesting. So the Navy did pay attention to Millenium Challenge, or at least to the Iranians paying attention to it... For those not current on it: Millenium Challenge was a Pentagon wargame played in 2000, brought to the world's att
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by clock_tower 11y ago
It makes me feel better, in a perverse way, to know that the hyper-rich are buying into the world's most obvious bubble. Say what you will about tulip bulbs, but at least they grow into things that are pleasant to have around. ("I
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by clock_tower 11y ago
That's certainly my view, at least: good and bad are orthogonal to new and old. There are periods where new tends to imply good, others where new tends to imply bad (think of the material culture of the '70s), and others where the
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by clock_tower 11y ago
It's appalling that the only kind of social consciousness on the market was advocacy for Communist revolution...
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by clock_tower 11y ago
The deed is done, the Communists are beaten... so can we go back to art that looks like things (and requires skill to create) now?