Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm

The Crisis, No. 17 Towards imagination

The People and the United States of America.

SPQR.

Res ipsa loquitur.

15.02.2026 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Crisis, No. 16 On the republic of Heaven

"Heaven must not be a kingdom, but a republic."

15.02.2026 14:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

LLMs Are Universal Translators, Not Universal Thinkers Or: Why the AGI Skeptics Are Right But Missing the Deeper Point

Despite all the recent advances. My views here have not fundamentally evolved.

14.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

It's quite clear that John Fetterman does not know what time it is.

14.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

The Crisis, No. 15 On the lie that the future is fixed

My response to Noah Smith's essay from this morning. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis...

13.02.2026 20:43 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

I read this piece in February last year and kept coming back to it ever since.

I can’t recommend this enough.

13.02.2026 22:13 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"The future is not fixed. The trajectory is not fate. The tiger was built by human hands, and human hands can choose what to build next. The parent who says I didn’t ask for this is not naive. She is making the foundational democratic claim — 1/

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The Crisis, No. 15 On the lie that the future is fixed

My response to Noah Smith's essay from this morning. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-crisis...

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The Crisis, No. 14 On the nature of property

Right-libertarianism is feudalism with liberal characteristics.

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The Crisis, No. 14 On the nature of property

The American libertarian argument fundamentally comes down to the notion that Thomas Jefferson erred in restating Locke’s “life, liberty, and property” to the more radical “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” Libertarians believe they are correcting this historical error.

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The Crisis, No. 14 On the nature of property

Let’s talk about property rights.

13.02.2026 14:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Software isn’t going to eat the world. It’s going to eat itself.

13.02.2026 03:35 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

David Bowie is God On the view from somewhere.

Whatever do I mean by this?

12.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

A fascinating piece by Mike.

The “view from nowhere” is the foundation of John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. “Ours is a world that is both everywhere & nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.” Sadly, far too many people have mistaken this dystopian vision for utopia.

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Why isn't this the God of Abraham/Jesus?

12.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

David Bowie is God On the view from somewhere.

Whatever do I mean by this?

12.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2

The Crisis, No. 13 On the view from nowhere

This is the last time I will mention Bari Weiss in the Crisis series.

12.02.2026 14:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fuck the IOC

12.02.2026 13:42 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

"It's a big club and you ain't in it..." Worth a read, understanding is in the seeing.

12.02.2026 12:44 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The Crisis, No. 12 On moral seriousness

I have some thoughts about George Carlin. Seriously.

12.02.2026 01:47 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2

The Crisis, No. 12 On moral seriousness

I have some thoughts about George Carlin. Seriously.

12.02.2026 01:47 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 3 📌 2

🚨 🚨 Breaking Congressional BOMBSHELL: Jim Jordan and Pam Bondi SHRED Trump's pardons for EVERYONE who stormed the Capitol on January 6th!!

"You have a right to protest on the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress."

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