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by crate_barre
1628 days ago
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Pretty much. It’s no different that glorifying Gordon Gekko in Wallstreet. Michael Douglas on why he doesn’t get why Gekko was an inspiration: https://youtu.be/I8ruk8wjhuQ We’re all vulnerable to this. Just here in tech we’ve deified the guy in a t-shirt/hoodie (zucks of the world) or mythical 10x programmers, built up and tore down people like Adam Neumann, all caricatures. Propaganda works sadly. With respect to war, it takes observing a war play out to realize how stupid it actually is. It took Americans 20 years of just watching Iraq/Afghanistan to conclude all that nationalism stuff is just not worth it at all. I don’t know how it’s all going to play out in the next 50 years, but I’m pretty sure in the aftermath of any American/Chinese conflict the conclusion of america-bad by the Chinese and China-bad by the Americans will just seem quite silly also. |
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