The active propaganda arm for mammonism matters; Overton's window is jammed. (Or at least has a lot of force continuously applied.)
The closest historical analogy I can think of is the 30 Years War; competing social systems having figured out that they can't co-exist.
Only that's much lower stakes than we've presently got; field agriculture has at most another 30 years (per the IPCC temperature trends, which are nigh-certainly conservative); after that, we either have already successfully transitioned to some other food supply or it's all over. The public perception of this is currently obscured, but it can't be obscured indefinitely.
So I'm not worried about the authoritarian drift in politics so much as I'm worried about the mammonites managing to kill everybody in preference to being less wealthy.
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Date: 2020-11-16 01:43 am (UTC)The active propaganda arm for mammonism matters; Overton's window is jammed. (Or at least has a lot of force continuously applied.)
The closest historical analogy I can think of is the 30 Years War; competing social systems having figured out that they can't co-exist.
Only that's much lower stakes than we've presently got; field agriculture has at most another 30 years (per the IPCC temperature trends, which are nigh-certainly conservative); after that, we either have already successfully transitioned to some other food supply or it's all over. The public perception of this is currently obscured, but it can't be obscured indefinitely.
So I'm not worried about the authoritarian drift in politics so much as I'm worried about the mammonites managing to kill everybody in preference to being less wealthy.