Where This Was Always Leading

⊕ Figure 1: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio, 1601-2

Watching the sincere ⊕ I mean the ones who remained intellectually honest. libertarians work through the Anthropic/Fable situation, which has been building for a while.

They’re strung out along the same curve ⊕ tariffs, visa/immigration, censorship, equity stakes, Norway, Venezuela, Anthropic/DoD, Iran, and now Fable… among other things at different speeds, some pointed well before Fable, some only arriving now.

They can see the admin they backed acting lawless and capricious, and they’ll name this decision but not yet the bigger thing, which for each is one of:

• they haven’t accepted they were wrong about where this was always leading,
• or they have and aren’t ready to say it,
• or they always knew the cost and figured they could steer it for their own corner. They’re finding out they can’t.

you can watch the tiptoeing in real time.