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Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology

From the New World

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The Apocalypse

I think we need to keep in mind Peter Teal's recent dictum right to be at least as afraid of the answer crisis there are apocalypse. In his model is medic contagion spirals of rivalry spirals towards an island or violence, then that looks that hits different in the era of nuclear warfare. At the very end of his life he seems to change this tune about this. And I think it's interesting. One of the things that you see in the secular age one of the problems of our age is that this idea of the apocalypse has been taken out of context.

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