Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Peter Thiel on the Triumph of the Counter-Elites" video.

  1. "The book that got it the most wrong, was Fukuyama's End of History" He assumed, like Marx, that the dialectic (or human reactions to human problems anyway, which can often be modeled in a dialectic) would stop with his favorite system. History didn't stop with communism; communism synthesized with capitalism to give us the market-economic welfare state. The Liberal Order is based on this economic proposition. A new Thesis, according to the dialectic. This new Order itself, instead of dominating the world, has brought into focus a set of opposing principles: Instead of freedom, authoritarianism; instead of distributed cognition, central control. This opposition is championed by the (in many ways ancient) Chinese system - mandarins serving their Emperor, today named Xi Jinping. The West is unfortunate enough to have an infestation of authoritarian bureaucrats in Washington DC right now -- our own mandarins -- or we'd be able to credibly fight this new Cold War we have on our hands, based on this ideological chasm.
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