Individual Sovereignty | the singularity is nearer

I sang NOFX’s The Decline on stream last week, and one line really stuck out to me:

I sang NOFX’s The Decline on stream last week , and one line really stuck out to me: Place a wager on your greed, a wager on your pride Why try to beat them when a million others tried? And I thought about this a lot. If I want to beat them, something will have to be different. Any tactics I use will have to be ones that were unavailable to the masses of people thinking about the problem throughout history. Andrew Breitbart has the classic line “politics is downstream from culture”, so if you want to change politics, you first change culture. Seems quite true, especially in any manufacturing c

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