in thread "This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire ": Yeah it's pretty bad. Our core populations are just busted. You can see this on the street with what would have been normal people last generation strung out on drugs, or bad ideology, or whatever. I think it's because we've had our actual social fabric, c... 2y ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 6.3 6.3 Yeah it's pretty bad (view hidden) log in to judge received 6.3 6.3 To take the example of the puritans, they grew in their cognitive sovereignty until it resulted in their not entirely voluntary exile from old England. 30 years later, they had executed the king and put in a puritan Lord Protector. So it's not true to say ... 3w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 7.9 7.9 To take the example (view hidden) log in to judge received 7.9 7.9