Brilliant essay Janice, cheers. I just keep hoping that the big yellow taxi, driven by the Mango Mussolini, will not take it all away. However, on the empirical side, if Trump wins, his Moldbugger buddies (Vance, Thiel, Musk) will be proven correct, when they tell us democracy no longer works. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/democracy-redux-reflections-for-the-fourth-of-july-12c1afbab4cd