| 10:33 | signpost | my admittedly oblique commentary meant to convey that something which organizes (young, usually) men into coordinated action has been decaying for several generations, well upstream of bitcoin, WOTs, etc |
| 10:36 | signpost | by "new frontier" I mean that whichever crop of young men is going to grow into a nation anew, it's likely to happen in either 1) the wreckage of a previous empire or 2) new, open territory |
| 10:36 | signpost | not holding my breath for either, just laying out the typical historical pattern |
| 10:42 | asciilifeform | signpost: 'grow into nation anew'(tm) defo aint happening anywhere before gotterdammerung. |
| 10:43 | asciilifeform | small pockets of folx actually switching on their brains & collaborating not requires alpha centauri mission tho |
| 10:43 | asciilifeform | ( nor for alpha centaurians to land & bulldoze reich overnight ) |
| 10:45 | asciilifeform | ( collaborate on what? there's plenty of on what. + use imagination. ) |