Fascinating investigative journalism piece. The plot thickness, that it's not some shadowy foreign powers meddling in western democratic processes - but western elites using mass social engineering against their own people. https://twitter.com/Liam_O_Hare/status/978727648225619970 …
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And then you realize that all that advancement and cultural structure of western society is basically the result of thousands of years of just this: elites engaging in the mass social engineering of their subjects, which by submitting to this engineering become their agents.
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The advancement of western society is the result of exploitation of the rest of the planet. But the free reign of exploitation is now hitting its boundaries as natural wealth is depleted. Self-exploitation and self-conceit will not lead to perennial growth.
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For a large part of history, western society with its ethical norms driven by social engineering, was pretty crap in comparison to other civilizations with different sets of values. The current dominance of the west is too short-lived (a few centuries) to base any conclusions.
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thank you for this summary, agree. I would add, not all social engineering is bad: Education is a use-case. The difference are principles and values - things that the current Vectoralist Class has yet to deliver convincing results on. (related http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/the-vectoralist-class/ …)
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Social engineering is inherently antithetical to the most important value: the search for truth. Education should not be imagined as leading people to a predefined end, but to support in the open-ended search for truth. Building such supportive structures is a cybernetic problem.
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I don't trust the unenlightened power grabbers who control the levers of politics and finance (and to some extent, also academia) to make the right choices for building such social structures. The current trends are unequivocal in leading to social and ecological disaster.
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Correct. Unfortunately, nobody has power but those that manage to get and keep power. At least their abilities tend to be more correlated with understanding the social dynamics we operate in than the delusions and intuitions of student revolutionaries.
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