In the US, the core of the beast, the built environment has been fundamentally transformed over the last 80 years such that most people don't interact with hardly anyone. By spurring white flight, the population was re-segregated and minorities relieved of what little generational wealth had been accumulated through property to replace them with highway projects, surface lots, and parking garages for the commuting white professionals automating the war machines, surveillance equipment, computers, and algorithms to financialize all aspects of human interaction.
Now we're post that, with everyone's faith in others and all institutions, public or private, decimated. The zombie empire pillages the globe, the CIA and capital interests in the US are only meaningfully opposed by some powerful states, and neoliberals burned the social fabric so that apps could replace it.
The West spent all the trillions it stole from the former colonies which had revolutions, to destroy them. While destroying them, they exhibited "authoritarian" tendencies, for which they could be browbeaten in the capitalist propaganda and sanctioned, subjecting them to further instability and causing their projects to languish. Now the reality we got because of the specific circumstances of our history are regarded as thought-terminating axioms by the public at large. Communism is "authoritarian". It will always fail for unspecific, obscure reasons to do with bureaucracy.
Absent something incredible happening, I think we're just forced to wait for the US' overtly fascist turn, increased militarism to shore up resources for the ruling class to try to finish automating their technological supremacy, which should bring the US into conflict with many countries. Hopefully whoever rises to the challenge can destroy the Fourth Reich, occupy it, and re-educate its population.
Yeah, I think we'd just keep repeating the cycle with some slight changes and more technological sophistication, if not for the fact that burning hydrocarbons at the rate we have been will take 11 generations to slow down. Climate change guarantees massive changes eventually, we're getting mild preview of it today.
Tough ask.
In the US, the core of the beast, the built environment has been fundamentally transformed over the last 80 years such that most people don't interact with hardly anyone. By spurring white flight, the population was re-segregated and minorities relieved of what little generational wealth had been accumulated through property to replace them with highway projects, surface lots, and parking garages for the commuting white professionals automating the war machines, surveillance equipment, computers, and algorithms to financialize all aspects of human interaction.
Now we're post that, with everyone's faith in others and all institutions, public or private, decimated. The zombie empire pillages the globe, the CIA and capital interests in the US are only meaningfully opposed by some powerful states, and neoliberals burned the social fabric so that apps could replace it.
The West spent all the trillions it stole from the former colonies which had revolutions, to destroy them. While destroying them, they exhibited "authoritarian" tendencies, for which they could be browbeaten in the capitalist propaganda and sanctioned, subjecting them to further instability and causing their projects to languish. Now the reality we got because of the specific circumstances of our history are regarded as thought-terminating axioms by the public at large. Communism is "authoritarian". It will always fail for unspecific, obscure reasons to do with bureaucracy.
Absent something incredible happening, I think we're just forced to wait for the US' overtly fascist turn, increased militarism to shore up resources for the ruling class to try to finish automating their technological supremacy, which should bring the US into conflict with many countries. Hopefully whoever rises to the challenge can destroy the Fourth Reich, occupy it, and re-educate its population.
Don't forget all of this has to happen before climate change becomes irreversible too
Yeah, I think we'd just keep repeating the cycle with some slight changes and more technological sophistication, if not for the fact that burning hydrocarbons at the rate we have been will take 11 generations to slow down. Climate change guarantees massive changes eventually, we're getting mild preview of it today.