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As an immigrant I can answer that question........... While I bet on American exceptionalism, the question will be whether America can maintain a stable, unified national identity without a shared, singular cultural (melting pot) and linguistic baseline.
allegiance to the constitution vs demanded allegiance to an individual...our current quandaryAs an immigrant I can answer that question.
When I took my citizenship exam at 19 I was pretty blase about the whole event having lived in the US since I was six.
At the end of the citizenship ceremony we took the oath of citizenship and I thought I was going to swear allegiance to the United States of America.
You don't.
You swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. An idea, not a country. Even at 19 I thought that was REALLY EXCEPTIONAL.
That does mean that you have to teach the kids about the Constitution of the United States and the ideals that it represents. That is our national identity, not a "shared singular cultural and linguistic baseline".
I do think we do need to do a much, much, much better job of teaching that to our children.
As an immigrant I can answer that question.
When I took my citizenship exam at 19 I was pretty blase about the whole event having lived in the US since I was six.
At the end of the citizenship ceremony we took the oath of citizenship and I thought I was going to swear allegiance to the United States of America.
You don't.
You swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. An idea, not a country. Even at 19 I thought that was REALLY EXCEPTIONAL.
That does mean that you have to teach the kids about the Constitution of the United States and the ideals that it represents. That is our national identity, not a "shared singular cultural and linguistic baseline".
I do think we do need to do a much, much, much better job of teaching that to our children.
Thank you for becoming a citizen!As an immigrant I can answer that question.
When I took my citizenship exam at 19 I was pretty blase about the whole event having lived in the US since I was six.
At the end of the citizenship ceremony we took the oath of citizenship and I thought I was going to swear allegiance to the United States of America.
You don't.
You swear allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. An idea, not a country. Even at 19 I thought that was REALLY EXCEPTIONAL.
That does mean that you have to teach the kids about the Constitution of the United States and the ideals that it represents. That is our national identity, not a "shared singular cultural and linguistic baseline".
I do think we do need to do a much, much, much better job of teaching that to our children.
Beat me to it...I thought this interview with Cory Doctorow was very interesting:
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots - Ars Technica https://share.google/MyOJ0M510omNggbpn
"When the AI investment mania halts, most of the models are going to disappear, because it just wonβt be economical to keep the data centers running. The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100 billion IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
Today's sell-off reflects the market starting to realize the circle jerk between the AI/chip/ tech companies is just that, the same money round tripping.I thought this interview with Cory Doctorow was very interesting:
How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots - Ars Technica https://share.google/MyOJ0M510omNggbpn
"When the AI investment mania halts, most of the models are going to disappear, because it just wonβt be economical to keep the data centers running. The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market, and they endlessly pass around the same $100 billion IOU. AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
Today's sell-off reflects the market starting to realize the circle jerk between tech companies is just that.
Or as Warren Buffet stated just prior to the .com crash when asked why there were no tech stocks in Berkshire Hathaway holdings...."there has been an enormous amount of money invested in tech on pure speculation that has yet to provide a return on investment"