let's pause for a moment and recall that in Vernor Vinge's masterful "A Deepness in the Sky" the authoritarians are called "The Emergent", and there are a few subtle clues (a bad swear is "puss") that tell us that their society was forged by surviving / reacting to a plaguehttps://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1227657904838320128 …
yep ; he just didn't hammer the reader over the head with it, IIRC
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...and the name of the Emergent comes from, IIRC, "The Emergency", which is subtle
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I mean, Naomi Klein's central thesis in "The Shock Doctrine" is how powerful interests often use emergency situations to push through unpopular policies. To my eyes, "The Emergency" in Deepness In The Sky is a specific (and extreme) example of that phenomenon.
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