This treatise from
@wigger is genuinely brilliant and strikes all the correct issues of the time in a non-ideological way, which I do think
@elonmusk ought to take seriously. Elon is a great man of history and he ought to take that seriously.
One of the important points Hyde makes about competing with China is that you are competing against a slave society and we are attempting to do it on their terms, that is, reducing our people to slaves and judging the victory as being on the terms of who has the most slaves. For some reason, it is never asked by our tech overlords why we might expect a society of slaves to defeat a society of free men.
History is replete with examples of free men conquering slave societies, with far fewer numbers, because free men are themselves better quality than the slave, they fight harder than the slave, and they fight longer than the slave. They have a direct stake in the victory and so they just want it more than the slave does. Whatever the slave societies are doing, we ought to do the opposite. Our free nature makes us tough, makes us active, and makes us hungry to win. Under this creed, there's never been a time where the Anglo world truly lost, which is why everyone speaks English, recites our political and economic ideas, and seeks to move into our countries.
We are the winners of the last 500 years of world history over the slave societies because we were free. If we decide to go against this ethos and allow the advance of technology to sap this spirit away, then we will only reduce ourselves to their level and get beaten by their superior experience in slavery. Our victories have always been based on a fundamental good faith in the people we have; if they are not yet sufficient for the task, they will willingly make themselves capable by their own efforts.
By contrast, the slave society is marked by an essential scepticism towards the quality of their own people, that they are not good enough and cannot be trusted to behave properly. Placing our trust in ourselves has never steered us wrong and made us as the preeminent civilisation since we burst onto the historical stage. We must understand the driving force that made us great, and we need to recommit to this faith in ourselves now more than ever.