As @rajakorman.bsky.social reminds me, there's another force at work in Musk-Trump's willful dismantling of USA, fomenting of chaos: Rothbardian cryptocurrency "thought" holds that capitalism can work without structure, absent the rule of law, outside (dare I say it) "institutions."
It won't.
It won't.
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Rebecca Spang
"To what end?"
It may well be that they both truly are "Manchurian candidates."
But I think it's also possible they're both such solipsists (nothing exists except themselves) that they can't think in terms of system, structure, consequence. No "gaming out" of how to profit. Just dismantle rules.
It may well be that they both truly are "Manchurian candidates."
But I think it's also possible they're both such solipsists (nothing exists except themselves) that they can't think in terms of system, structure, consequence. No "gaming out" of how to profit. Just dismantle rules.
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