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USA vs Europe, Zeihan & Fukuyama, Reforming institutions vs starting new ones, and why we started "Moment of Zen"

"Moment of Zen"

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Live Action Role Play

LARP is live action role play, like something that is not going to lead to anything really just kind of pretending or the aesthetics of it. The people who are into it are exactly those who wouldn't have lasted four fucking seconds in 15th century floors. That is the ironic insult buried in the LARP claim that they're being swept up in some great drama that they themselves in physical reality couldn't actually do. And Fukuyama did not say that history would end. If you call Marx's original allegation, that Marxism would come after liberal democracy actually succeeded,. Capitalism would succeed, and then communism would divide the spoils, so to speak.

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