Joscha, That statement assumes only that the devil we know is better than the on

Joscha,
That statement assumes only that the devil we know is better than the one we don’t. Yet every day reveals that the US is no different from any other civilization in history: the expansion of free riders, rentiers, corruption, and sedition on scales that disable polities from their capacity to adapt to shock and change. And there is a lot of change going on in the world. As much as during the world wars. The world wars should have ended the age of empires and institutionalized the age of nation states. However, anglo-saxon moral optimism prevented the completion of the project, and now we will suffer it once again. Kindness is too often a folly in matters of political and cultural momentum.

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