Moldbug is entirely wrong-- Puritans are not ruling America-- Cavaliers & Quakers are-- Puritans are the scapegoat of our society, & Borderers are the most abused class. "Unitarianism" is Quakerism infiltrating Puritan Congregationalism.
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Quaker-Cavalier alliance was forged in the China Trade-- they had the same interests-- Quakers are mercantile-- Puritans were Yeoman Farmers. Cavaliers are oligarchs with plantations. Borderers are our Warrior caste.
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The Quaker-Opium connection is still something you can only start to see in footnotes of scholarship-- people don't want to believe!
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The Old China Trade... you won't find any "Puritans" involved with this, but you will find Quakers & Cavaliers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_China…