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Been reading a lot of Terry Pratchett and I have Deep Thoughts inspired by the character of Vetinari, the Patriarch of Ankh-Morpork. Warning: minor spoilers ahead. Ankh-Morpork is pointedly a sort of in-absentia monarchy. It is structured as a monarchy but doesn’t have a king.
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This thread is an interesting dissection of how power works in a fantasy-comedy novel, but I don't know if I'd say it applies to reality. Many (most) of the advances ppl take for granted came relatively recently & on the backs of political leaders who risked beliefs
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I haven't heard of Century but I'l check it out. I felt Hypernormalisation had a terrifically strong "there": ~70s, gov blinked in the face of modern complexity & ceded control to biz managers & backward-looking prediction models, doubled down on narrative-as-reality