I see, thank you for explaining, I was misapplying jdp’s model indeed.
I do think the model doesn’t quite match reality. If humanism has already been dying, it can’t be because ordinary people aren’t useful anymore—they’re still very useful! We’ve had automation, yes, but we still require workers to tend to the automation, the economy has full employment and it’s not out of the goodness of anyone’s heart.
I think the Internet has in fact been a prelude to the attitude adaptive for the martial shifts, but mostly because the failure of e.g. social media to produce good discourse has revealed that a lot of naive implicit models about democratization being good have been falsified. Democracy in fact turns out to be bad, giving people what they want turns out to be bad. I expect the elite class in Democratic Republics to get spitefully misanthropic because they are forced to live with the consequences of normal people’s decisions in a way e.g. Chinese elites aren’t.
I see, thank you for explaining, I was misapplying jdp’s model indeed.
I do think the model doesn’t quite match reality. If humanism has already been dying, it can’t be because ordinary people aren’t useful anymore—they’re still very useful! We’ve had automation, yes, but we still require workers to tend to the automation, the economy has full employment and it’s not out of the goodness of anyone’s heart.
I think the Internet has in fact been a prelude to the attitude adaptive for the martial shifts, but mostly because the failure of e.g. social media to produce good discourse has revealed that a lot of naive implicit models about democratization being good have been falsified. Democracy in fact turns out to be bad, giving people what they want turns out to be bad. I expect the elite class in Democratic Republics to get spitefully misanthropic because they are forced to live with the consequences of normal people’s decisions in a way e.g. Chinese elites aren’t.