Interesting musings about the Deep State. Obviously ideology and worldview is important, but I think it hides the REAL enemy, which is bureaucratization. All of those organizations and actor and causes seem coordinated because their organizational and financial incentives are in alignment, not just their ideologies. The dream is a society with a top-heavy administrative structure, managing and regulating and ministering to a thousand different parts of society. The Blob will define problems as broadly and fuzzily as possible, and then make a systemic effort to never solve them and use the distress and concern as fuel for its survival and expansion.
Do you think the "Deep State"'s real backend ideology is the system itself (i.e. the purpose of the system is what it does).
The front-end ideology can change. Most of the time front-end alignment is preserved with perfect homogeneity, but the system's backend can output a new front-end program from time to time to preserve its "core code" the bureaucracy.
What I'm interested in is whether we have a real chance at some sort of alternative to bureaucratization.
It would entail allowing a lack of homogeneity in the way people live their lives. Farmer, factory worker, monk, teacher, fisherman, cowboy, soldier, etc. would have to be allowed again to be entirely different programs and methods of living rather than the compressed slop where bureaucratic regulation pushes them all toward being monotone 9-5s with the same daily commute from the same easily trackable and spreadsheet monitored homes.
I'm just not sure how we get there and away from "here" while retaining the benefits of industrialization practically speaking. People think AI will replace and destroy the bureaucracy, but I worry that it will just make it worse because it won't even require as many people to preserve itself.
In 2020 there was the republican assertion that the Obamas used Italian military satellites to rig the election without going through channels that the nsa could monitor somehow.
As people turned inward and got "busy" they enjoyed themselves a bit too much doing other things and just got distracted from the revolution.
Let's hope that the same thing happens this time, though I wouldn't bet on it. Things are quite a bit more unstable now than in the 1970s. Back then, for better or worse, and as Cooper narrates in that interview, there was an establishment to fall back on and absorb the chaos.
But now, as we just saw in Syria, there is chaos bubbling beneath the surface because every regime is structurally weak, and a little push can have unexpected results...
Interesting musings about the Deep State. Obviously ideology and worldview is important, but I think it hides the REAL enemy, which is bureaucratization. All of those organizations and actor and causes seem coordinated because their organizational and financial incentives are in alignment, not just their ideologies. The dream is a society with a top-heavy administrative structure, managing and regulating and ministering to a thousand different parts of society. The Blob will define problems as broadly and fuzzily as possible, and then make a systemic effort to never solve them and use the distress and concern as fuel for its survival and expansion.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/leviathan
Do you think the "Deep State"'s real backend ideology is the system itself (i.e. the purpose of the system is what it does).
The front-end ideology can change. Most of the time front-end alignment is preserved with perfect homogeneity, but the system's backend can output a new front-end program from time to time to preserve its "core code" the bureaucracy.
What I'm interested in is whether we have a real chance at some sort of alternative to bureaucratization.
It would entail allowing a lack of homogeneity in the way people live their lives. Farmer, factory worker, monk, teacher, fisherman, cowboy, soldier, etc. would have to be allowed again to be entirely different programs and methods of living rather than the compressed slop where bureaucratic regulation pushes them all toward being monotone 9-5s with the same daily commute from the same easily trackable and spreadsheet monitored homes.
I'm just not sure how we get there and away from "here" while retaining the benefits of industrialization practically speaking. People think AI will replace and destroy the bureaucracy, but I worry that it will just make it worse because it won't even require as many people to preserve itself.
In 2020 there was the republican assertion that the Obamas used Italian military satellites to rig the election without going through channels that the nsa could monitor somehow.
Days of Rage by Brian Burrough as well as Darryl Cooper's interview with James Poulos agree with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfOf11EFY6E
As people turned inward and got "busy" they enjoyed themselves a bit too much doing other things and just got distracted from the revolution.
Let's hope that the same thing happens this time, though I wouldn't bet on it. Things are quite a bit more unstable now than in the 1970s. Back then, for better or worse, and as Cooper narrates in that interview, there was an establishment to fall back on and absorb the chaos.
But now, as we just saw in Syria, there is chaos bubbling beneath the surface because every regime is structurally weak, and a little push can have unexpected results...