
E2: Balaji Srinivasan on His Past and Future predictions, the Future of the Left and Right, and Why Tech Can’t Escape Politics
"Upstream" with Erik Torenberg
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The Future of Nationalism and Socialism
There's a bunch of folks who are just happy that the US is just fighting guys abroad and they're not attacking people at home. They don't care that it's a fight with two nuclear powers, you know, like Pelosi trying to cause a fight on the base of Taiwan for no reason in the middle of a war with Russia. And so the nationalism and socialism are merging as we move from wokeism to state ism. The most unpredictable perhaps thing is they'll eventually flip on race by the 2030s.
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