>>5768290>eventually it’ll burn itself outThe Romans burned themselves out from being unsustainable, but I'd rather not have 1000 years of ESG. They've been destroying the current system and replacing it with their own. Again any major opposition gets countered, since even the moral framework used by their enemies is theirs (they make the rules for the game and win using them).
>incoherence and sheepleThey are on the verge of creating a formalized structure (already it has its framework). And the masses will generally follow whatever gives them security or happiness.
>corporations themselves aren’t free marketCorporations can only thrive and act as they do with the base structure of a free market economy. At this rate one would need the intervention of the state to cull them, which companies already have too much influence over.
I think there should be a change in the way of thinking. State power, much like guns, is only a tool. It's not inherently evil and has been used by all factions in the economic/political spectrum to secure their ideology (the Church, Capitalists, Socialists, etc). Even Anarchists use it for their own interests, as paradoxical as it sounds
speaking of that, I want to add that while foreign actors were indeed a component of demoralization in the West, I failed to mention that the modern progressive faction (and concepts like the ESG) was created by the West itself to fight Soviet/authoritarian leftist influence, the most famous examples being the COINTELPRO projects.>Vanderbilt-Collins Steamboat WarsI've heard of this one before, and it doesn't really make much sense why it's used as an argument for the free market. This entire exchange exists within the scope of the American nation, and assumes permanent comparative advantages within the country's markets rather than the modern absolute advantages that are sought after internationally in free trade (which often act in an economically destructive way for their home country). I mean the Consortium is corporate domination over the state if I'm understanding it correctly, and they seem to struggle with nihilism and directionlessness. Compared to the Hegemony, who are also nihilistic but have clear social directions.
>USSR fall comparable to Austria-Hungary'sI'd argue that while the fall of Austria-Hungary was far more instant and violent, the Soviet fall caused destruction and a vacuum that can be felt to this day. There is a sense of Soviet nostalgia in Russia, but communism has mostly been replaced by the Church as something that's amiable to the modern Russian state.
>communityI think our arguments are the similar here, except we're using different scopes.
>str*wman with a hard nVery interesting. However I have now depicted myself as a 'chad' using this image, therefore I win.
>recapture the institutionsI completely agree with this sentiment.
>glitch in the matrixYOU WILL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! I HATE THE ANTI-CHRIST!
