Americans Are Losing the Long Game(www.noemamag.com)

3 pointsby littlexsparkee4 hours ago3 comments

FrankWilhoit43 minutes ago
For the peasant, past good, future bad. The future is the thing you prevent. Acceptance (leave aside advocacy) of change is a crime. And if Americans are leading the backward charge, China is also stretching a powerful elastic anchored in the Ming. Technology has outrun evolution, and that cannot stand.
sgt4 hours ago
> We needn’t be so hard on Americans. As the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe has noted, the West at large has foreclosed on the idea of any world to come or any imagined future. Exit is impossible, he winks in French; the longue durée is a dead idea.
Right, lets trust a Cameroonian historian (lol) to decide that the West has come to an end.
- iugtmkbdfil8343 hours ago
  It is sometimes hard to see things clearly when you are invested in the outcome. Not that your skepticism is not warranted. Still, I should not that decline of the west are not some sort of weird and recent concept. There are a fair amount of books that cover the subject including some fairly often quoted ones comparing US to Rome.
- MiroslavPokorny3 hours ago
  He might be an African, but even Africans know that very little comes from America.
  No African is going to tell you they want an American car over a German. Continue this across other physical stuff and none of them come from America.
  He would understand Big Tech is very rich, but he also knows that hardly helps all the other millions of Americans.
  - sgtan hour ago
    > He might be an African, but even Africans know that very little comes from America.
    Anti american sentiment in the very first sentence.
- DemocracyFTW23 hours ago
  Please DM me your place of birth so I can reply to this using the Form "Right, lets trust someone born in _________ (lol)". Lol.
buffer_overlord4 hours ago
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