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Late night notes

I'm waiting for an upload to finish, and I realized I'm falling behind on posts here all too quickly.

I want to take the time and write something about individualism in a world of demographics, but I will probably never take the time to do it so let's try a one-sentence summary. I really don't have the background understanding of identity politics and everything else necessary to have this really work yet, but we'll give it a shot anyways. Yeah, I know this is too oversimplified, but I will never work this out without trying to write it down.

Well, actually, let's just start with a list:

• Rise of demographic thinking
• Individual vs. group
• Benefit to society (beyond a dollar value)
• Self-interest vs. the world
• Debt to society
• Ask not what your country can do for you
• Absolute morality
• Selecting for electibility
• The Great Compromiser

Somewhere, if you connect the dots in some order, there is an essay hiding in there.