There are growing concerns about the coherence and effectiveness of Western institutional frameworks. NATO is sometimes called brain dead. look at the situation that the US refuses to aid ukraine in this war. Clearly, causing damage to russia in this war is worth a lot to the US. Instead there are secret meetings with russian officals and weird russian-authored peace deals they try to force on ukraine.
When it comes to china, one comanpy (nvidia) can probably force the us government to sell its primary edge to china just so nvidia can jack up the price of GPUs.
Democracy itself is barely what it used to be with the electorate being essentially illiterate and simply not informed about the facts.
I have a hard time imagining how it have possibly been any worse than now. I mean look at the presidents that were elected back then. Skimming a newspaper or having it recited to you once every other month is probably better than the information distribution system we have right now. I don’t agree with everything here but offers some sources: https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
Thanks! Yeah makes sense, something like extremely adversarial / exploitive information environment, coupled with general decay in elite culture (and mass addiction to vertical video, social media).
There are growing concerns about the coherence and effectiveness of Western institutional frameworks. NATO is sometimes called brain dead. look at the situation that the US refuses to aid ukraine in this war. Clearly, causing damage to russia in this war is worth a lot to the US. Instead there are secret meetings with russian officals and weird russian-authored peace deals they try to force on ukraine.
When it comes to china, one comanpy (nvidia) can probably force the us government to sell its primary edge to china just so nvidia can jack up the price of GPUs.
Democracy itself is barely what it used to be with the electorate being essentially illiterate and simply not informed about the facts.
Any citations on electorate being more ‘illiterate’ (in the relevant sense) then, say, 1960.
I have a hard time imagining how it have possibly been any worse than now. I mean look at the presidents that were elected back then. Skimming a newspaper or having it recited to you once every other month is probably better than the information distribution system we have right now.
I don’t agree with everything here but offers some sources: https://jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
Thanks! Yeah makes sense, something like extremely adversarial / exploitive information environment, coupled with general decay in elite culture (and mass addiction to vertical video, social media).