@0 @tyler @placebo For those of you not reading my books, there is a reason the 100+ million dead of the Breakup in the US alone were concentrated in cities. Only Maine, Texas, and a few city-states in the South survived. Culture, religion, the mass expulsion of Diversity. It allowed the idea to slowly percolate down that the so-called Enlightenment, in general, was not a good thing, and that liberal democracy, in particular, was a total failure.

Only ethno-states live. All four Great Powers are monarchies and two have fascist governments. And they are on the Moon, Mars, and in the Belt and eying the Gas Giant moons. What we were promised in the 50s and 60s in SF comes true. Once we stop coddling orcs who hated us or listening to satan worshippers, we can accomplish anything.

machciv.com/2023/01/04/machine-civilization-reading-order/