By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/ 418870
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/05/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/05/16/t... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 1352
natevoss.bsky.social @natevoss.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Maybe it wasn't that power implied durability. It's that we needed durability so badly we mistook our own faith in the power for evidence of it. The belief held more weight than the thing itself. 000
little-mice-in-sky.bsky.social @little-mice-in-sky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026whatever our oligarchs want to steal this month, they get." Ouch. But true 1121
