Part of me wants to write a point by point rebuttal of this, but I’m not sure it would be useful. There are many, many assumptions in this work that would have to be teased apart before the good ideas here could be discussed on their own.

I’ll limit myself to a comment about his comment regarding the end of the Soviet Union, quoting from a long essay I wrote last year, comparing the crisis in the Soviet Union to the global crisis:

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If you think two things are completely separate, and yet they change at the same time and in the same way, then you need stop and ask yourself why were you so confident that they were completely separate?

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-struggle-to-save-the-so...