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What is the strongest ascending successor of neoliberalism right now in the sense of a world-historical-process shaping force? (granting that neoliberalism is far from a spent force and might come back)
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like (being super loose), the whole "it's time to build" meme, focus on manufacturing & natural resources, "state capacity", funding "atoms not bits" projects, great men not collective processes, 19th-c-style oligopolistic conflict between nations
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things aren't getting less complex/unpredictable/chaotic than in the 2010s, they're getting more so; but my sense of opportunity is around "treating the world as chunky and fact-y and "normal", with like the affect of a 1950's Statesman or Captain Of Industry"
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There's, like, a British Empire Chunky World, and a post-1945 reboot Chunky World, and a Reagan-Thatcher reboot Chunky World (which I think is neoliberalism?) and postmodernism is "dissolving the illusion that Chunky World is the world"?
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I see/feel this trend too, and even see myself responding that way, but wonder how much of it is merely reactive overcompensation for feeling seduced and betrayed by rarefied ideas as opposed to sensing actual opportunities in atoms.
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Cultural equivalent of Keynesian aggregate demand fueling by building “infrastructure” of roads and bridges nobody needs. Because the point is seeking meaning through building not the building itself.
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yeah, my spidey sense says those guys are not going to be very impactful. anybody can be a nonsense shitposter mystic chaos monkey, there are many kinds of these, the characters in the Foundation books basically think of them as rabble and plan around them
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