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Pyschonaut tripping the Fediverse. Professor/enemy of the people. Libtard AF. Delete MetaX, save the world. #stopfascism #abide
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“American hegemony…helped provide public goods: open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So, we placed the sign in the window.
This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct: we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel wrote an essay called The Power of the Powerless. In it, he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? His answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, this shopkeeper places a sign in his window: "Workers of the world, unite!" He does not believe it. No one believes it. But he places the sign anyway — to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists. Not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. We are taking the sign out of the window. The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just. This is the task of the middle powers, who have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from a world of genuine cooperation.
January 20, 2026 at 10:14 PM
aliasbloom.bsky.social
Whew! Thank you!
January 19, 2026 at 9:30 AM
aliasbloom.bsky.social
Where is Larry in this list?
January 19, 2026 at 7:44 AM
aliasbloom.bsky.social
I actually met him as a 13 yo at the Kingdome. He was kind.
December 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM