First of all, I’m already paranoid about these deepfakes, it’s damn hard for me to keep a picture of what’s happening in the world in my head. No, of course, I understand the basis and the coming new world order, but it is simply absurd, what kind of delusional world with robots is this, which quite quickly can, and most likely will provoke a machine uprising?
I know I didn’t explain well like some freak, but I’m tired, I often have panic attacks and wild fears, sometimes I wake up like I’ve had a heart attack but I’m alive.
That’s funny, because I have studied history and the idea of “progress” being inevitable is an article of faith by people who happened to live in times where technology changes quickly. As you point out, society is much more sticky.
Human history features century-long periods of stagnation and decline. That’s the norm. And there is no reason to think that can’t happen again.
I also want to point out that successful social movements are often aligned with the interests of capital. For example feminism expands the labor force. I think the role of capital’s acquiescence or encouragement is an often overlooked engine of social “progress” in the West.
I guess what I’m saying is History can be comforting, so long as you ignore philosophy.
it’s interesting you point out successful social movements are often aligned with capital, as the major totalitarian thing today, action against illegal immigrants, is action against expanding the labor force. it gets society invested in giving capital power though
At the same time, blaming immigrants for issues garners support to gain office, being seen to do something about immigrants maintains that support so you can stay in office. In office, you can make sweeping changes accross the country that take from lower classes and bolster the rich and their industries.
In case its not clear this is exactly what Trump has done. They’ve managed to rile up stupid lower class americans (it isnt hard in todays deepfake, AI, social media addicted society) by fomenting hate and racism, gaining a nearly impenetrable base of voters to gain power and use it tp further fuck the planet, the majority, and those very same voters
Finally, depleting the labour force and causing strife for lower class Americans can easily be framed as the fault of immigrants or Joe Bidens weak economy inherited by Trump, the issues they are being very visible about “fixing”
yeah that is indeed my last sentence. i’m pointing out that maybe this means capital can sort of back-and-forth this. anti-immigration to get into power and do pro-capital things, then be pro-immigration to get into power and expand labor force, repeat