How I understand the current Trump revolution:
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Tyler, maybe it’s time for a new edition of Talent —one that includes Elon’s risk-taking and Trump’s deal-making.
wow been thinking something similar
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We think to judge presidential candidates on their foreign and fiscal policy ideas, but I think we're learning that in the modern era "mimetic policy" dominates
Inspiring people to do the work to make change is more important than passing laws requesting that change
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Merica, we're taking it back.
You like Trump, you know it, time to show it.
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Tyler, can you put the presidency of in the same cultural context? Or is that more about economics?
Alternative Theory: Trump assembled a team of people who "get things done" and set them loose to solve our problems as quickly as possible.
Model: Tyler is an LLM made from flesh. He read everything ever written but just much more slowly than a building of GPUs.
Analysis: The
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It's hard to imagine that a cultural shift in the direction of pro-America is bad.
It's easy to conclude that a cultural shift in the direction of anti-America has happened internally in recent direction and has been bad.
What you describe may be the result of what Trump does.
But there's a simpler explanation for why Trump does things that spark outrage and debate than that he's actively trying to advance a cultural agenda: He's an 'attention-whore'
Deep Research on this post: "A Straussian might even quip that Trump understood the surface lesson of Plato (that controlling culture is power), but not the deeper lesson (that cultural policy must be guided by truth and oriented to justice, lest it produce a feverish city)."
This is good. And real time support for the thesis
The media won’t tell you, and woke liberals are clueless: Trump’s roaring comeback is driven by everyday Americans fed up with soaring bills, not obsessed about a dozen genders or the right to a transgender bathroom. #AbookThatChangesEverything #TrumpWon
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I am sorry, this feels like a smart person's effort to add intellectual veneer to actions that are haphazardly guided by half-assed ideas, narcissism, a shortsighted effort win the next media cycle or simply patronage favors.
"Cultural" is indeed a too-intellectual way to describe it
It's not cultural policy, it's *television* policy, with a bit of anonymous x dot com nazism/conspiracism thrown in
So Vivek was right?
Being in an internet-intensive, (short) attention-at-a-premium world is what fvcked you up in the first place, you can't deprogram an entire population and rewire them to be positive and productive by repeating what turned them into dysfunctional slobs.