Are We Seeing a Political Realignment?
Europe is now broadly to the right of the US Establishment on ethno-cultural issues, whereas it was to the left of the US in 1988.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The world is being forcibly reconfigured by at least three concurrent revolutions: a geopolitical revolution driven by the rise of China; an ideological revolution consuming the Western world; and a technological revolution exacerbating both of the former.Geopolitically, a decent understanding of what is happening, if not of its full extent, has em... See more
N.S. Lyons • The Upheaval
Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee
... See moreNeil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
There appears to have been a profound shift, beginning in the 1970s, from investment in technologies associated with the possibility of alternative futures to investment technologies that furthered labor discipline and social control
David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Make no mistake about it: by the late Clinton-Blair years, both the Right and the mainstream Left had accepted the basic premise adapted from systems theory that the economy was a natural system whose stability depended on the government’s getting out of the way and allowing self-interested people to work toward a dynamic equilibrium. Gone were the
... See moreDouglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
Leur heure sonna enfin en 1980, quand Margaret Thatcher et Ronald Reagan unirent leurs forces pour porter le scénario néolibéral sur la scène internationale. Tous deux récemment élus, ils étaient entourés d’adeptes de Mont-Pèlerin : l’équipe de campagne de Reagan incluait plus de vingt membres de la Société, et le premier chancelier de l’Échiquier
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