BRACE YOURSELVES I am about to do some meta level politics and might come dangerously close to scratching the surface of object level politics
we've very nearly reached the breaking point though. elite grifting has reached critical levels. this is unsustainable and has already started to break down. the problem is that the popular revolt against elite grifting has not resulted in anything good.
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this is Ortegan Revolt of the Masses with all the stupidity and ugliness predicted by that framework. The revolt either reaches its climax in fascism or it gets resolved by a historical crisis (i.e. big fucking war). It's been a long time since the last big fucking war btw.
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can it be avoided? I think it can actually. I think we might uniquely have a situation where global powers don't actually want to make war on each other they just want to pacify their revolting masses and move on with life.
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This pacification cannot be achieved without major reforms which cannot happen without reciprocal alignment between elites and the populous. this is where we're stuck at the moment. Expect continuing decay and decline until we're able to realign and move forward.
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