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Thanks for the link to Star Wars as a Norse myth. I always wondered how Star Wars could feel so superficial and so deep at the same time. It looks like the superficial technological fantasy is masked by the deep family drama.

"I think he's a bit too sweeping in claiming there's no value in applying abstract thinking to politics." From 1990 to 2010 I followed politics. Talk shows, party events, newspaper analysis, mainstream and alternative. There is nothing useful there. I think Spengler is on to something.

The quote about the "Blues" and the "Greens" of Byzantium is great. I read about that before, and it seems many functioning societies split in two political groups. The center of the groups is the will of the people. This works for current US politics as well. Democrats and Republicans both go for the voter that will get them a majority, and so they end up exactly in the middle. This also explains why a change in governing party does not result in a change in policy. It does periodically replace the rulers without violence, which is a great thing about democracy.