18 meditations in an emergency: 大选 takeaways

全体注意必须紧急停止引用茨威格。

(01:29) 必须超越身份政治

(16:28) 必须明白他人存在

(23:58) 必须走出昨日世界

(30:18) 必须（稍微）爱（一点儿）

开玩笑的kids don’t do this at home (29:59)

Some references:

“The quintessential condition of 21st century liberal/progressive Democrat/Labor politics: a couple of fundamentally good guys imagining a more just world that their core political philosophy has absolutely no ability to bring about.” Freddie deBoer, Liberalism Cannot Produce Outcomes Satisfactory to Liberals, https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/liberalism-cannot-produce-outcomes (02:07)

Daniel Finn, Two Centuries of the National Question, https://jacobin.com/2023/02/two-centuries-of-the-national-question (07:27)

福山《身份政治》 quoting Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (08:06)

陈嘉映，《救黑熊重要吗？》，https://www.sohu.com/a/496864704_121119350 (10:22)

“It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932) (Brandeis, dissenting) (12:41)

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?” Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (20:56)

“I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.” DDL, There Will Be Blood (PTA, 2007) (33:13)

“右派注重自由，左派注重平等。而法国的口号是：自由平等博爱。”马克龙，2024 (33:56)

葛兰西《狱中札记》(34:55)

茨威格《昨日的世界》(36:11)

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