cloud vs land code vs kings internet vs china memes vs genes network vs state mobile vs sessile digital vs physical founder vs emperor technology vs politics individual vs collective capitalism vs socialism bottom-up vs top-down decentralized vs centralized internationalism vs
The Origins of Political Order by @FukuyamaFrancis talks about the difference between the Chinese and Indian traditions. To oversimplify, China was state above law and India was law above state. (1) The Chinese took the pragmatic attitude that the emperor was all powerful, so
@balajis @FukuyamaFrancis Reality always wins. The CCP fights hard against reality, and that will bring it down sooner or later. The jury's still out on bitcoin specifically, but we've already seen how ineffective efforts to censor people online are. That reality makes the endpoint obvious.