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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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There’s an angry “all maps are fake news made by craven fraud elites” tenor that shows up in a lot of the supposed building being closer to “Nordic yes Chad” build-larping than meaningful building driven by an interesting idea.
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yeah I think any "movement" big enough to leave a trace will contain fakes and waste, sometimes even a lot of them...there's a certain aestheticization of Chunky World which is inevitable but isn't core, y'know?
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