(A completely fake icon of success, but that hardly matters. "there are legends of heros, not many are true")
That aphorism about "no justice, no peace" isn't a moral prescription; it's a tautology. Nobody's getting any justice anywhere, irrespective of their cultural frame. (Mammonism cannot produce justice; it's pretty much civil solvent, and is in consequence antithetical to justice.) It's easy to construct a history of Anglosphere politics from 1980 as the increasing injustice necessary to prevent structural change from affecting the elite's preference for mammonist practices. The result is people resorting to magic to decrease their insecurity, because there's absolutely no material way for them to do so. (And instead of the market town subject to panicky feedback, we've got the internet as a global id-amplifier.)
That civil war is ongoing; it's not going to get better until cultural transmission of whiteness stops. There's a lot of possible approaches to that, but also time constraints as plausible pandemic resolution timelines start running into noticeable amounts of agricultural collapse.
I don't think we've got an active cultural model for something helpful; we'd have to go back a very long way to get something suitable for getting off extractive capitalism and getting everybody through a protracted crisis. (I continue to think there's something to Alfred's Wessex in this respect.) Which is in turn a problem of reducing those presently powerful to a state in which they cannot prevent their reduction, which is not something that can happen by increments.
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Trump was an icon of success.
(A completely fake icon of success, but that hardly matters. "there are legends of heros, not many are true")
That aphorism about "no justice, no peace" isn't a moral prescription; it's a tautology. Nobody's getting any justice anywhere, irrespective of their cultural frame. (Mammonism cannot produce justice; it's pretty much civil solvent, and is in consequence antithetical to justice.) It's easy to construct a history of Anglosphere politics from 1980 as the increasing injustice necessary to prevent structural change from affecting the elite's preference for mammonist practices. The result is people resorting to magic to decrease their insecurity, because there's absolutely no material way for them to do so. (And instead of the market town subject to panicky feedback, we've got the internet as a global id-amplifier.)
That civil war is ongoing; it's not going to get better until cultural transmission of whiteness stops. There's a lot of possible approaches to that, but also time constraints as plausible pandemic resolution timelines start running into noticeable amounts of agricultural collapse.
I don't think we've got an active cultural model for something helpful; we'd have to go back a very long way to get something suitable for getting off extractive capitalism and getting everybody through a protracted crisis. (I continue to think there's something to Alfred's Wessex in this respect.) Which is in turn a problem of reducing those presently powerful to a state in which they cannot prevent their reduction, which is not something that can happen by increments.