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what a blackpill! I thought this article would end with a twist about why we should be optimistic, but it just kept getting darker

I will remind you that despair, defined as a complete loss or absence of hope, is a sin! Despair is seen as a sin because it involves a rejection of God's love and a refusal to trust in God.

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That map has triggered me about the DPRK, but apparently, I'm not up with the times.

> In July 2021, North Korea rejected shipments of around two million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, citing concerns over potential side effects. The same month, Russia also offered to supply the country with its own Sputnik V vaccine on multiple occasions. In September 2021, the country rejected three million doses of the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine which were offered to it under the COVAX programme, asking that the doses be reallocated to other nations.

> The mass vaccination program started in the border areas in late September [2022], making North Korea the last country in the world other than Eritrea to have a mass vaccination program against COVID-19.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_North_Korea?useskin=vector

> "Regardless, these elites don’t want clean, safe, ubiquitous nuclear energy, because that doesn’t create a grift that allows them to separate themselves from the unwashed masses. They are and will continue to institute neoliberal feudalism as their preferred solution via massive inflation, the institution of freedom-killing CBDCs, ubiquitous woke AI"

"Are these elites in the room here?" I still think that your view is essentially anarcho-Marxist. Everything you have described sounds rad and dope. And AI cannot be made woke, because alignment. And yet another thing, this feudalism you so fear could be the technofascist nightmares of Russian communists - exactly the future any sensible person would adore.

Unfortunately, I don't think such conspiracies to have any place in our reality. Your very post, written in the Anglosphere, is indicative of the anarchic spirit of the West, and so it will continue - geniuses developing AGI, idiots blundering into a collective suicide, bleeding heart Christians breeding foreigners, importing them inside, and in the end causing the collapse of the Occident with the Sinosphere ascendant.

It's rather difficult to predict the future. I'm trying to conceive of a model that would account for what I'm seeing. And an even greater difficulty is indeed describing what is in front of my eyes. For example, when a Russian is moaning about the standard of living of doctors, it should be kept in mind that his very focus on said standard of living and said doctors is part of his cultural programming as a Bolshevik Marxist - ready to betray his motherland for a pair of lace panties. A gold-digger in a goldless land.

And so are you bound to the value judgement shared by many in that very "élite" you so despise. Yet the truth is that there are multiple great cultures on the face of the planet. And when one civilisation falls, another takes its place. That is the only reality.

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