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And yet what I struggle most with is identifying who, if anyone, benefits from this. Who, if anyone, controls this. Or is it all just chaotic feedback?
by marksellers 9y ago
And yet what I struggle most with is identifying who, if anyone, benefits from this. Who, if anyone, controls this.
Or is it all just chaotic feedback?
- kortex 9y agoMy money is on chaos. You take all these powerful and/or power-hungry people, who all want their way, but they are also influenced by other movers and shakers to want certain outcomes, and soon it's one giant spaghetti strange attractor.
- mannykannot 9y agoI think we are seeing combination of short-sighted self-interest and "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", together with a willingness to use irrational arguments to advance those interests. There have been many historical precedents, but perhaps none more so than the French revolution, which went through several cycles of this. The Terror only ended when the surviving politicians all realized that they were more likely to be executed than hold on to executive power, if they carried on this way.