06-19-2020, 11:56 AM
Sarkar suggested that most of the West was approaching the end of the Age of Acquisitors as economic inequality intensifies, culture becomes depraved, the system turns out horrible leaders who fit the worst deeds of rapacious plutocrats (what could better fit that than Donald Trump?), "society" unravels in economic and social atomization, and everyone seems to run away from any sense of responsibility. People look for easy money...but few people are creating wealth unless they are under abject fear of rapacious plutocrats and their agents. Rationality recedes into the background as many believe that they can choose their own reality.
Chaos erupts... and the only people who still have any knack for organization, the enforcers of the Acquisitive Age, the soldiers and police, are in the best position in which to establish any semblance of political or administrative structure. Society begins to resemble a barracks in which people have less freedom but far more security. Consider of course that hunger is not freedom, an open window upon opulent splendor that most people can only find offensive is not a scene of beauty. This is not to say that we are in for a series of coups or revolutions; it is possible that the post-Crisis era is one in which leaders find ways in which to keep people from needing a revolt just to gain or recover some sense of dignity.
The Age of the Soldier is one with simple rules and much more conformity -- but also a time of less economic disparity. Even if leaders are elected democratically they will fit the pattern. Incomes will show a reversal of the trend of intensifying inequality. Regional and ethnic differences in result will become less blatant.
Chaos erupts... and the only people who still have any knack for organization, the enforcers of the Acquisitive Age, the soldiers and police, are in the best position in which to establish any semblance of political or administrative structure. Society begins to resemble a barracks in which people have less freedom but far more security. Consider of course that hunger is not freedom, an open window upon opulent splendor that most people can only find offensive is not a scene of beauty. This is not to say that we are in for a series of coups or revolutions; it is possible that the post-Crisis era is one in which leaders find ways in which to keep people from needing a revolt just to gain or recover some sense of dignity.
The Age of the Soldier is one with simple rules and much more conformity -- but also a time of less economic disparity. Even if leaders are elected democratically they will fit the pattern. Incomes will show a reversal of the trend of intensifying inequality. Regional and ethnic differences in result will become less blatant.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.