Oh come now! It is not an accident of fate that western companies do not depend on Russia for chips!
More to the point: the prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not merely contrary to American principles or pecuniary interests but a near-existential threat. Does Chinese leadership grasp this fact? An awful lot turns on this question.
But her emails: on the positive side, it becomes easier to grasp the collapse of the Weimar Republic, which I found baffling, many years ago, in high school.
Pleasures of conspiratorial thinking: I've enjoyed them myself in the form of ARG (alternate reality games) played by seeding the internet with some fake sites which turn up in what is more or less a scavenger hunt, with an evolving narrative. My understanding of Q is that there are multiple levels of belief involved, including those who are just enjoying the fiction and are fully conscious of it. But even a normal brain processes the real world largely as a narrative. Augustine described his own search for a satisfactory narrative. I felt some sympathy, during the search phase.
Oh come now! It is not an accident of fate that western companies do not depend on Russia for chips!
More to the point: the prospect of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is not merely contrary to American principles or pecuniary interests but a near-existential threat. Does Chinese leadership grasp this fact? An awful lot turns on this question.
But her emails: on the positive side, it becomes easier to grasp the collapse of the Weimar Republic, which I found baffling, many years ago, in high school.
Pleasures of conspiratorial thinking: I've enjoyed them myself in the form of ARG (alternate reality games) played by seeding the internet with some fake sites which turn up in what is more or less a scavenger hunt, with an evolving narrative. My understanding of Q is that there are multiple levels of belief involved, including those who are just enjoying the fiction and are fully conscious of it. But even a normal brain processes the real world largely as a narrative. Augustine described his own search for a satisfactory narrative. I felt some sympathy, during the search phase.