Ross Davidson
@RossDavidson7
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Do what you must and pay the price if you're wrong. Sometimes if you're right too.
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Joined January 2012
I changed my mind. And I'm going to throw another wrench in: I'm going to "kill one of my darlings." On draft 2, one chapter remained mostly untouched because of how awesome I thought it was. In the trash can. Building out the lore needed to make something even better.
And then, and only then, will I world-build. I'd say I have a clear 80%+ of the broad strokes of the mythology and overarching world. However, the specific mechanics aren't hashed out at all. I put strong emphasis on story over worldbuilding, and I think that'll pay off.
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The US is Founded upon one, singular ideology. There is no "right and left." That is a Continental Euro construct, made as a wedge to insert themselves into the American spectrum. Communism is the religious institution of Leftism and it should be ejected from this country.
It comes down to education. The communist ideology should be unthinkable. It should be so diseased a philosophy that even bringing it up in America should be met with the same contempt and disgust as pedophiIia.
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Isn't it weird how the guy saying his robots are going to take all our jobs is promoting foreign indentured servitude because it's cheap?
@elonmusk @zerohedge No you just don't want to pay to increase incentive to do so. Stop advocating for cheap foreign indentured servitude.
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So maybe this is more of an Americanized attempt at instituting a form of British class-based hierarchy. A new "landed gentry" if you will. jfc STOP IMPORTING FOREIGN IDEOLOGIES
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Jfc this guy was like the OG "deep state" guy. Never elected yet couldn't be removed and inflicted himself all across the country.
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Man, the more I read about this guy the more I'm convinced he's the reason the "expert class" became a thing in America. His whole shtick. And because of that, he structurally denied the lower classes physical access to spaces. And his followers spread it like corona virus.
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So he was a classist and specifically so. If you didn't go to an Ivy League school, you were trash. And his definition of "merit" included Ivy League qualifications.
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Ugh. Now I'm gonna have to read all about this second-gen European import.
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And, wouldn't you know it, this can all be traced to a singular, power-hungry, piece of trash who was simply out to inflict his will upon the US: Robert Moses. "Cities are for traffic," he said. So fuck our culture. Lol the Groypers are gonna ape when they figure this one out.
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But, setting aside esoteric philosophy for a moment, something *concrete* we can do right now is the relaxation of zoning laws. Less "single-use" and more "mixed-use." Sure, rules and regs and w/e, but allow the individual to *create.* Individual need can revitalize community.
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Post 1950s, everything in this country changed. We began abandoning our Founding Principles and embracing collectivist ideas from Europe. Now, we're faced with how to right this ship, and are being presented with several options, most of which are fundamentally collectivist.
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But that atomization you're feeling? That disconnect from society? The urge to return to the town you grew up in and those earthy bonds you formed in your youth? Well it's largely because of the current urban design. Which is not historically American.
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Interesting the timing of this switch, but I won't try and tie it back to us getting "entangled" in Europe. 😉
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This sort of thing used to be the norm in America. Although maybe a little messier than what I'm envisioning. It's called "mixed-use." And this has largely been outlawed in favor of strict divisions within the urban layout. So, no more walking! Cars only.
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Imagine living in a neighborhood, and every Friday and Saturday the house down the block turned into a diner/pub which played music and let the neighborhood get to know *itself.* As in, it's only the neighborhood, not folks from clear across town.
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Before the 1950s, Americans were much more community oriented. I believe this is the structural reason why: We started dividing cities up based on use-case rather than individual need.
A far easier and more community enriching solution would be to relax zoning laws. How amazing would it be if your neighbor down the block had their own homestyle-diner? Sure, rules and regs and w/e, but imagine having neighborhood hangouts again.
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Post-liberals say that to combat communism we must destroy individualism. And institute another form of collectivism. Am I the only American that sees the absolute retardation in this? How about we try something novel and double down on the Foundational Principles of America.
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If you don't maintain a system it degrades. Any system. The solution is not to import *another* foreign ideology (post-liberalism), which is also collectivist, in order to overcome the other collectivism which has infected us. The Brits are just desperate.
@Sargon_of_Akkad “The purpose of something is what it does” No offense, but my liberal republic founded by Unitarian deists is more functional than your Kingdom with a defender of the faith of the state church. Liberalism is reliant on religious morals, yes, but so is everything else.
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No, Carl. You're advocating for the destruction of my nation. You are wrong and your collectivist politics are not going to work in America. It's not time for us to "leave the matrix." You maybe. For us, we must return to the Foundational Principles of America, not collectivize.
My "Fall" from Liberalism It's time to leave the Matrix.
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The US is the best. No other can come close. Be the culturally superior American your ancestors were.
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