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Interesting that World War 3 never happened; instead, we smoothly transitioned to War World, where war is just something that happens all the time, randomly, in
by jl6 9mo ago
Interesting that World War 3 never happened; instead, we smoothly transitioned to War World, where war is just something that happens all the time, randomly, intermittently, undeclared, and interminably.
- delis-thumbs-7e 9mo agoI’m not so sure. This War World is very similar to the geopolitical game played by the great European - and increasingly US as well, especially in SA - powers in the 19th century. That Belle Epoque was of course what drove the global politics into the first Great War.
- aebtebeten 9mo agoKissinger maintained his goal was to avoid stumbling into another Great War; we may or may not believe him, but at least he took the trouble to rationalize his actions.
- aebtebeten 9mo agoOceania has always been at war with Eastasia! > "Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare"
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo agoNeither XJP nor Trump are semi-divine by the benchmark of BB, but perhaps the "political structures" (non-pyramidal) are
- aebtebeten 9mo agoGood point wrt BB; I think "pyramidal" was referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oligarchical_Collectivism#/media/File:1984_Social_Classes_alt.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_and_Practice_of_Oli... (I have a friend who is a PRC citizen; I don't know her background precisely but her habitus reminds me of nothing so much as the slightly younger women I'd met at a boarding school in Palo Alto, so I think it's safe to say that socialism with chinese characteristics has at least one non-prole class :-)
- aebtebeten 9mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46493504 has another take on inner party psychopaths essentials outer party clueless interchangeables proles losers everyone else