Timothy Taubes

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If Trump had said I'll implement project 2025 on day 1 Cut Medicaid, Medicare and veteran benefits Affordability is a hoax Invade Iran Give my sons $billions in gov't contracts Start a trade war Give Musk your personal info Destroy the east wing Join the axis of evil Kamala would be president today

Territoriality Territoriality. A primitive instinct more primordial than any other. Space is absolute irreducibility, more so than time. Time requires the presence of ego-consciousness. Space does not.

CIVIL DEMOCRACY Vertical checks & balances not horizontal among a higher echelon of power 1 house legislature/term limits/biennial elections Executive council with rotating chair Independent department of judication No party role in national politics Public Oversight Civil bureaucracy NO PRESIDENT

Genocide Genocide is the apogee of ethnological hate. It’s heart deadened by the reptilian brain, it buries others under the ground upon which it stands. Fear and inadequacy are negated in the regalia of subjugation and murder.

Our founding fathers must have seen something of Rousseau’s, “noble savage,” in the indigenous population. It fit their purposes exactly. The American Indians became the laboratory control against which the great experiment of democracy could be measured.

“Important as it may be , in order to judge rightly of the natural state of man, to consider him from his origin, and to examine him, as it were, in the embryo of his species; I shall not follow his organization, through its successive developments…

The Seismology of Extremism Does History make its way by haphazard chance, or does History find its way, plotting a course for which there is only one true path? Neither of these possibilities are congenial.

I've been watching the videos of the flood in Nepal. It's the most horrifying thing I've ever seen. They probably can't expect any help from the United States. Trump and Musk would much rather keep that money for themselves.