https://unherd.com/2023/08/the-west-and-china-share-the-same-fate/
created by Outsider-Trading on 30/11/2024 at 10:27 UTC
117 upvotes, 8 top-level comments (showing 8)
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Comment by dweezil22 at 30/11/2024 at 12:12 UTC
150 upvotes, 3 direct replies
This articular blithely conflates:
Now a better article might suggest that the West is on the brink of some sort of unholy merger between capitalist super corporations/billionaires/the government and be on to something, pointing out that the increasing digitalization of society gives such a monolith a terrifying single point of access to control a disturbing portion of people's lives...
But, as is, this just reads like a whiny right-winger that didn't see the results of the 2024 elections mad about lockdowns and ESG investment funds. It assumes a shadowy class of powerful deep state actors when in fact those theoretical masterminds are all just worried about getting laid off and having Elon Musk[1] dox them and send a horde of incels to their address.
1: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/business/elon-musk-government-employees-targets/index.html
Comment by SonyHDSmartTV at 30/11/2024 at 12:18 UTC
35 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Didn't Nigel Farage get debanked because he no longer for the requirements for the bank? Coutts is a posh, elite persons bank that doesn't let the great unwashed have an account. Nigel wasn't fulfilling the bank's account requirements, like 99% of people wouldn't, so they closed his account. I don't think it was because of who he is.
Comment by samjp910 at 30/11/2024 at 10:47 UTC*
83 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Every autocracy and oligarchy has collapsed at some point in time, and once again there is no mention of how the present Chinese regime pulled 600 million people out of poverty, and there’s already multiple quiet resistance movements in China, as they get too big for their britches beyond their borders like in the South China Sea, Central Asia with Belt and Road, and Africa with their capitalist, pro-authoritarian diplomacy.
Further, what garbage about Trudeau’s policies in Canada. No, he’s not the best PM and he’s made some mistakes, but they truly pale in comparison to his wins if you aren’t brainrotted by the lack of media literacy; his covid lockdowns were not demagoguery, there was rising instances of right wing extremist violence around the trucker protests, and the vaccine mandates were entirely necessary.
That doesn’t mean the piece is wrong about managerialism, but if it has a stance, it needs to use better examples of authoritarian overreach than Trudeau.
Comment by Kyle_Reese_Get_DOWN at 30/11/2024 at 14:03 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This system, described by James Burnham and George Orwell as “managerialism”, is the product of a new class of professional managers bound together by a shared self-interest in the expansion of technical and mass organisations, the further proliferation of managers, and the drawing of society into the meddling embrace of managerial expertise. At its heart is a conviction that all things — even the complexity of society and Man himself — can be understood, managed and controlled like a machine with sufficient scientific technique.
Just ask RFK Jr.
Comment by SpicyBread_ at 01/12/2024 at 00:51 UTC
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it should be noted, unherd is a fascist publication, run by the same billionaire owner as GB news.
nothing publicised in it should be trusted.
Comment by iVarun at 01/12/2024 at 08:32 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Something that'd be written around 3rd century CE post Han & Rome decline eras.
Comment by Outsider-Trading at 30/11/2024 at 10:32 UTC
-10 upvotes, 3 direct replies
In light of Marc Andreeson's recent elevation of the issue of debanking to the public eye, this article lays out the rise of "a third form of governance". Neither capitalist or socialist, this is a form of managerialism in which administrators, regulators and businesses collude to accrue power and undermine opposition.
While China is always held up as the epitome of unified state control, the author argues that trends in Western governance are heading in the same direction.
As someone who has been following the Operation Choke Point 2.0 scandal closely, and who is now seeing this scandal become public, this article provides a coherent and concise overview of the larger forces that allow things like Operation Choke Point 2.0 to happen.