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 …
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Replying to @MorlockP
Vinge explicitly makes the connection between the mindrot plague and the creation of the fascist Emergent caste system.
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Replying to @Hugo_Book_Club
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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