Liberalism is basically a proselytizing religion at this point. These people are convinced that their way of life is the one true way, and everyone in the world must be forcibly converted to it.
European settlers committed genocide in America on such an incredible scale that the global climate cooled.
Globalism is unraveling as we speak, and capitalism will die with it. No system lasts forever.
Good to hear it's not as bad as the article makes it out to be.
What does that prove exactly, there are obviously lots of people in Taiwan who simp the west. US spent vast amounts of money cultivating them.
Sure, we might not die out entirely, but bad things are certainly coming and we're likely past the point where we can avoid the horrors.
Second that, it's a fantastic book and despite starting out laying out a grim state of the world it manages to paint a convincing way out of the horror that we created. I want to live in the world KSR imagines.
We're not going to be the first species to go extinct, but we will be the first ones to do while having the option not to.
It's pretty incredible to see that grown ass adults can't understand the root causes that created the conditions for the war in Ukraine. It's not like countless western academics and politicians have warned for decades that NATO expansion east would eventually lead to a war or anything.