At various points in my riff, I was very pessimistic about different things. In 2008, it was monetary policy. Today, it is the policy of prosecutors and authoritarian nationalism. At the same time, I was so pessimistic that I began planning my transition to Canada and New Zealand. The US is a pretty great place to live.
Janan Ganesh has SEM on foot to criticize both the left and right for excessive Pessimism.
The 1930s are a rarely useful guide to what’s going on now. Strongman was a precedent chaos, with wars, hyperinflation and political gangs fighting for street control. Today’s demagogues appeared in pure peace and wealthy Periv. After decades of failed violent crime, Donald Trump was more or less the most intense country on the planet, and it was the last war of signs for more than 40 years. The UK, which voted to leave the European project, had far more industrial peace and international status than the ones that first participated. As for Germany, the far right voting base maps almost entirely to the old east.
You are a very different story about Allen, but posing a bat. The lesson from the 1930s is that those suffering – economic pain, physical fear, loss of national territory – are responsible for relying on extremists. The lesson today is that cultures can guide them to do the same thing. After too long, the gentle Paris lime gets bored. The temptation to take risks in the vote begins to grow. Stability unstable. The 1930s are easy to understand because it fits common sense. Trauma leads to anger. The intellectual challenge of the royal family is to absorb the themes of our own time. This is a twist of long-term success.
On the left, he mistakenly thinks this is once again the 1930s, and Hitler is right there. Rights think this is once again the 1930s and we need strong leaders to correct the misery of our society. This comes from Trump’s 2017 inauguration speech.
This American massacre has stopped here and is now stopped.
Eight years later, things got worse.
Over the years, you embrace the fundamental and corrupt institutions, drawing power and wealth from our citizens, who seem to be broken and completely devastated.
Being unemployed again in 1933 is like the right trend, with a 25% unemployment rate, fascists taking over and pretending to believe again in 1933.
A Trump official named Michael Anton wrote a famous essay on Flight 93 on September 11th that protected the situation in America. To me, our country is like a normal United Airlines flight to Chicago.
The book by Francis Fukuyama, entitled “The End of History,” has been widely criticized, primarily by people who have never read it. This is what he said would happen after the end of history:
Experience suggests that if a man cannot stop on behalf of a valid reason, that legitimate cause has won in the early generations. They struggle to struggle. In other words, they will struggle from the boredom of Cerelin. And when the greeter portion of the world they live in is characterized by a peaceful, prosperous liberal democracy, they are fighting against that peace and prosperity, and democracy.
wonderful. The best explanation of the world in 2025 was written in 1989. It’s as if the Internet was invented to realize Fukuyama’s prophecy.
I also recall this famous comment by Karl Marx.
Hegel tells Somowhere that all great world historical facts and people have appeared twice, so to speak. I forgot to add: the second farce, first as a tragedy.
Unfortunately, excessive pest disease you have. The Pessimists are unable to carry out how the people of Mans begin to think.
What should we lise? Let’s think about that phrase. Suppose we rank all of the world’s societies from the least successful to the most successful. Obviously, this list will be a few subjective, but I think it’s safe to say that most people will place places like Switzerland and Norway at the top, and places like North Korea, Haiti and Somalia at the bottom. Think about a scale of 1-100. Where does the US fall on that list? Are we approaching Switzerland and Norway, or North Korea and Haiti?
If you think that things are so bad in America that you are fundamentally necessary
Imagine a car with some minor mechanical issues. Is it more likely that if you pick up the car with a giant robot arm and swing it up and down vigorously, the shaking component will fall into place, or is it more likely that the car is getting even more damaged?
Substudies suggest that happiness is positively active with wealth. One possibility is that money buys happiness. Another possibility is that a depressed person creates a bad decision and makes himself worse.
