The hallmark of a deficient ideology is that it does not allow itself to be challenged. If they were sure they had the truth they would not need to fear different opinions.
You imply that the censoriousness and cancellation are (at least eventually) weaknesses that lead to decline and defeat.
Like Toby Young do you think this comes about because 'ordinary people' just eventually see through it?
Is there something different with this one? The Soviet Union fell in part because freer societies were simply more successful. If we give up on free thought and expression en masse perhaps there will be no way back (not for a longtime at least)?
Hmm. There are a lot of defeated peoples out there who are no longer available for comment.
But, sometimes coercive regimes do fall apart. I'd pose Farr's Law as a metaphor. (Others, like Obama, have pose versions of it, too. "The fever has broken.")
Farr's Law is what?: Certain processes ramp up exponentially. But, then they break and exhibit exponential decay. The problem is, it's hard to calibrate the process; as things ramp up, it's hard to predict when they will break.
So, the Soviet Union really got going with the Soviets' First Five-year Plan. At some point everyone could see that the system was a joke. And then it became common knowledge that the system was a joke. The system then became susceptible to collapse.
A difficulty, of course, is that it took nearly three generations for the entire process to unfold. (One has to wonder if the great "Patriotic War" lent the Soviet enterprise an extra decade of life, albeit at the expense of some 20 million dead. Its debt was paid at steep rates.)
What about our Woke Age, our latest religious revival? We keep waiting for "the fever to break," but things keep getting more insane. I don't know when Farr's Law will kick in. But, 'nary too soon.
Anyway, that bit about everyone coming to /commonly/ understand that the system is a joke is the lesson I get from Vaclav Havel's 1977 essay, "The Power of the Powerless." And the best example of that, in my estimation, would be the Solidarity movement in Poland. It took ten years to bring down the regime, but everyone had confidence that down it would come.
Good analogy. I tweeted back seeing many disparaging My Young's presentation. Cancel only works if feckless people can't overcome their fear of being cancelled. I really don't care if I'm called a white supremacy racist. OTOH, I don't have a job I'm dependent on. When I did have a job my duties were generally hard to replace so I rarely worried about getting fired. I might assume those of great competence or wealth could care less about being cancelled. I see TV presenters who are often silly somehow survive maybe because they go along with the crowd. But Tucker is attacked every way possible and at the moment need not fear what others might say - that sense of freedom needs to return to all.
I imagine part of Trump's success before he was trashed by nearly every bit of media, was his off-the-cuff way of speaking; that did him in finally because he often let his ego get in the way and rarely thought much about what he was saying. But the appeal was exactly that bit of allowing us to hear his thoughts, unfiltered by focus groups and poll tested phrases used by nearly all politicians. No smile training either. News presenters smiling as they tell me 4 kids shot dead was awful.
Well, Older Brother. The best most of us might do is what, I gather, you have managed to do: organize one's life in a way that allows one to avoid being compromised.
In my working days, I was "counseled" from time to time by management. My clients however continued to award me and the company contracts because they valued my opinions and recommendations. Those often caused issues with other parts of the company. My client was involved with maintenance of products and designs for maintainability were not exactly appreciated by designers who only saw manufacturing of a design. Depends on whose ox.
Now retired my income stream is only vulnerable to the whims of politicians. I can only hope that diversification protects somewhat. Exxon has been wonderful recently, went green for a period per BlackRock.
The hallmark of a deficient ideology is that it does not allow itself to be challenged. If they were sure they had the truth they would not need to fear different opinions.
You imply that the censoriousness and cancellation are (at least eventually) weaknesses that lead to decline and defeat.
Like Toby Young do you think this comes about because 'ordinary people' just eventually see through it?
Is there something different with this one? The Soviet Union fell in part because freer societies were simply more successful. If we give up on free thought and expression en masse perhaps there will be no way back (not for a longtime at least)?
Hmm. There are a lot of defeated peoples out there who are no longer available for comment.
But, sometimes coercive regimes do fall apart. I'd pose Farr's Law as a metaphor. (Others, like Obama, have pose versions of it, too. "The fever has broken.")
Farr's Law is what?: Certain processes ramp up exponentially. But, then they break and exhibit exponential decay. The problem is, it's hard to calibrate the process; as things ramp up, it's hard to predict when they will break.
So, the Soviet Union really got going with the Soviets' First Five-year Plan. At some point everyone could see that the system was a joke. And then it became common knowledge that the system was a joke. The system then became susceptible to collapse.
A difficulty, of course, is that it took nearly three generations for the entire process to unfold. (One has to wonder if the great "Patriotic War" lent the Soviet enterprise an extra decade of life, albeit at the expense of some 20 million dead. Its debt was paid at steep rates.)
What about our Woke Age, our latest religious revival? We keep waiting for "the fever to break," but things keep getting more insane. I don't know when Farr's Law will kick in. But, 'nary too soon.
Anyway, that bit about everyone coming to /commonly/ understand that the system is a joke is the lesson I get from Vaclav Havel's 1977 essay, "The Power of the Powerless." And the best example of that, in my estimation, would be the Solidarity movement in Poland. It took ten years to bring down the regime, but everyone had confidence that down it would come.
Good analogy. I tweeted back seeing many disparaging My Young's presentation. Cancel only works if feckless people can't overcome their fear of being cancelled. I really don't care if I'm called a white supremacy racist. OTOH, I don't have a job I'm dependent on. When I did have a job my duties were generally hard to replace so I rarely worried about getting fired. I might assume those of great competence or wealth could care less about being cancelled. I see TV presenters who are often silly somehow survive maybe because they go along with the crowd. But Tucker is attacked every way possible and at the moment need not fear what others might say - that sense of freedom needs to return to all.
I imagine part of Trump's success before he was trashed by nearly every bit of media, was his off-the-cuff way of speaking; that did him in finally because he often let his ego get in the way and rarely thought much about what he was saying. But the appeal was exactly that bit of allowing us to hear his thoughts, unfiltered by focus groups and poll tested phrases used by nearly all politicians. No smile training either. News presenters smiling as they tell me 4 kids shot dead was awful.
Well, Older Brother. The best most of us might do is what, I gather, you have managed to do: organize one's life in a way that allows one to avoid being compromised.
In my working days, I was "counseled" from time to time by management. My clients however continued to award me and the company contracts because they valued my opinions and recommendations. Those often caused issues with other parts of the company. My client was involved with maintenance of products and designs for maintainability were not exactly appreciated by designers who only saw manufacturing of a design. Depends on whose ox.
Now retired my income stream is only vulnerable to the whims of politicians. I can only hope that diversification protects somewhat. Exxon has been wonderful recently, went green for a period per BlackRock.