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America's Coming Brain Drain

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'MAGA Maoism' - isn't a joke, or even an unfair characterisation.

All the elements are there - anti-intellectualism, destruction of bureaucracy, attack on state capacity, sidelining of state institutions, blatant illegality, cult of the leader.

Took China two decades to get out of it, though election cycle in US style democracy should mean an earlier opportunity to change course

There may be an opportunity to change course. On the other hand, the system is fraying. The FEC ( https://www.fec.gov/ ) is put out of action.

Elections may continue, but the results may be prescribed. It doesn't has to be as cartoonish as in North Korea or China, where only one party is allowed. The Russian model is more likely - competing parties are allowed, but only if they are losing competing parties.

Coming is it?

A slow roll to a crash, where we all watch in helpless disbelief.

Americans are self deceivers.

America is a culture of lies.

The very best of you are just as foolish and thick headed as your opposition, you simply have more faith in your cult of “so called science” and a human nature among you long since undermined.

Our leadership selection debacle exhibits a different truth than you tell yourselves.

America is a lascivious mob of fickle apatites. Once cleverly cynic, you are now sarcastic and cruel. Wish fame or notoriety upon none you admire for they will be devoured from the inside and out, in the end despised for it.

You eat and shit your sweetest tastes and balk at the stench of a depleted world.

You are not the America you think you are.

These sound like a joke: Truth, integrity, free will, human rights, and a righteous rule of law.

They seem the exhausted gimmick, the well worn prop. You might even think we “try”.

Your failures as human beings are just to start. We haven’t even gotten to the part about the evolution of Power, and the modern state of thought control hobbling you into submission.

Are you suggesting that there are some smart people gathering in a dark room somewhere putting a plan to control the masses, or is this just how the system works? Could you please suggest some books?

Actually, I know what you are talking about, but this question is intentional just to be sure.

I’m suggesting single minded lascivious persons seclude in dark crevices, and the throngs of tens of thousands who are fed and provoked my them (each their own tens of thousands) loot everything dear in this world.

There is a mob culture of the thought controlled and there are the “game masters” who have been indoctrinated into an inner workings of a machinework which underlies and overrides all modernity.

Anything about the voices in our heads being actual disembodied others, who screw all and provoke mass delusion (with very real yet impossible to document consequences.)

The conspiracy behind all conspiracies, the exogenous of thought control.

https://pastebin.com/3cPXbjhA

I think I know very well what you are talking about. I come from a culture where a lot of men, scholars, used to write a lot of books, one of their books could be in 10 volumes or something, and this is just one book. And they know poetry very well. And they know how to fight well with swords, ride and control the horse at the same time, and maybe carry a shield too. Their debate skills were very high because their knowledge is engraved in their mind. If I have an idea about a full self, it is them. And the lovely modernity is making us 1% of that. Anyone who can't see that is a fool.

Btw, the smart people are the ones who deny these things are even possible. We call those “the incredulous.” Power is coveted and curated by the single minded and persistent wills.

Our America is gamified and we cannot even accept who’s games we play.

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