Sublime

The very real communist threat in the period from the 1930s to the 1960s facilitated the class compromise between capital and labor that sustained the New Deal order. The disappearance of that threat between 1989 and 1991 facilitated the scuttling of that compromise and the triumph of the neoliberal order.

technologies (e.g., social media, cryptography, and some other financial technology) are seen to be breaking down the social fabric, heightening polarization, eroding norms, undermining law enforcement, and accelerating the speed and expanding the reach of financial markets to the point where they are unaccountable to democratic polities. We shall

États lourds vs États minimalistes Si la thèse que les États vont devoir diminuer leur taille pour rester pertinents au XXIe siècle est juste, ce sont les politiques qui iront dans ce sens qui auront les meilleurs résultats pour l’économie et le bien-être des populations à terme. Cela veut dire que les partis politiques qui vont promettre une

by deploying alternative news feed algorithms on in-silico social media platforms, where large language model (LLM) agents that mimic human social media users interact with one another, we can explore and test the impact of these alternative algorithms on macro-level social outcomes, such as conflicts and polarization.[385]