Divorce Story: Can Americans Break Up (with the Borg)?

Our crippling entanglements are with the machinery of our regime.

James Poulos @jamespoulos

Can you really get a divorce if you are transformed into nanogoo

A QUANTUM OF ENTANGLEMENT

Entanglement is perhaps thee main condition skeptics reach for to rebut, or even dismiss, the national divorce argument (we’re two different peoples/countries/civilizations, we must part ways or suffer the consequences).

Ackshually, we’re told, Americans are polarized but also muddled together; we mix and mingle more than could ever make possible a neat separation or even a messy one; too many normies can’t handle hiving off into cleansed camps; mass population exchange is one thing when it’s Greeks and Turks a hundred years ago, it’s quite another — dead on arrival — when we’re talking about red states full of blue cities and blue states often still teeming with as much as three million Trump voters.

And that, if we’re thinking about any of this, is well worth thinking through, or at least thinking over. But ask yourself — what is the source of our entanglement? What is the condition our condition is in?

Obviously we are in this situation because of technology — our technology, the thing we really have come to think we can’t do without.

Sorting out into two different Americas feels impossible because it would mean teasing ourselves apart from the technological superstructure that, at this point, is really what probably most of us sense deep down “is” America.