I haven't had a chance to read your book Peak Human yet, but this makes a lot of sense. When you close borders and limit trade, you're depriving the world of ideas, innovation and progress. Remember Carl Sagan's reflection at the end of Cosmos. He poop pointed out that the Mediterranean Sea made it easy to escape the tyrants and keep trading goods and ideas.
Who is the "you" in your question? Regardless, I love some of the stuff you post. Do you know "The Hegelian Dispatch?" Also a good read. I will consider making a pledge after taking your Substack for a drive. Cheers.
PS. I will think of you when I make my pilgrimage to Napoleon's tomb in May.
The author of the post I suppose. I was quite proud about my post, haha.
Unfortunately I haven't actually had the time to write much about Hegel directly due to my work for Ave, there's only some allusions in my article "Why is European Federalist rising". Hopefully soon though.
I think this inverts the causality. Trump isn’t the cause of our problems, nor is he driving them. He is the consequence of a long failure by our political experts. This failure produced Trump and MAGA and has left the so-called experts with no idea how to respond.
The cause of America’s decline is the same as the cause of any civilization’s decline: the dominance of bad ideas, produced and sustained by a deeply degraded intellectual class.
I haven't had a chance to read your book Peak Human yet, but this makes a lot of sense. When you close borders and limit trade, you're depriving the world of ideas, innovation and progress. Remember Carl Sagan's reflection at the end of Cosmos. He poop pointed out that the Mediterranean Sea made it easy to escape the tyrants and keep trading goods and ideas.
Did you see my X post from more than a week ago?
https://x.com/AveEuropaPolicy/status/2012848185639678045
Who is the "you" in your question? Regardless, I love some of the stuff you post. Do you know "The Hegelian Dispatch?" Also a good read. I will consider making a pledge after taking your Substack for a drive. Cheers.
PS. I will think of you when I make my pilgrimage to Napoleon's tomb in May.
The author of the post I suppose. I was quite proud about my post, haha.
Unfortunately I haven't actually had the time to write much about Hegel directly due to my work for Ave, there's only some allusions in my article "Why is European Federalist rising". Hopefully soon though.
Will check out!
I think this inverts the causality. Trump isn’t the cause of our problems, nor is he driving them. He is the consequence of a long failure by our political experts. This failure produced Trump and MAGA and has left the so-called experts with no idea how to respond.
The cause of America’s decline is the same as the cause of any civilization’s decline: the dominance of bad ideas, produced and sustained by a deeply degraded intellectual class.
Civilization, not empire? The difference is enormous.