Would be interesting to see what happens in the collapse. Community-oriented cultures would probably not be as affected, as they're resilient against capitalism anyway, and usually underdeveloped from the capitalist view. Individualist countries that rely on capitalism to keep working as it is would crash hard, I guess.
About the government part - the more I read about soft authoritarianism and the strategy behind it, the more I feel that people indeed want that. They're tired of democracy, tired of having to be informed to make informed decisions, it's so much work, so much attention to pay. It's so much easier to have someone to tell them what to do and what to think, and then blame them for everything so they don't have to take responsibility. Just be on one side of a spectrum that is a dot, hate the other side, be righteous and hence happy.
The short content from social media isn't helping. Everything is so dumbed down, simplified and intuitive. Headlines. And people happily fall for everything that resembled what they believe, though they have no idea why they believe that. Okay. It's one of these evenings. Better call it a night before I write a 80 page treatise on the absurdly horrifying state of the world.
I have been saying it for year and it affects everything. Now, all illnesses, even those that are self-inflicted, are seen as syndromes and issues outside of control. Obesity from over eating is now positioned as being victimised.
Always someone else's fault.
Intuitive for those who don't have real experience at least :)
While trying to get people on board with peakd shows how much they're used to intuitive things. This platform is not that hard to handle, and yet most people get frustrated very, very quickly. It's a perk of being millenial to have grown up setting up PC, LAN, IP and all the little things that gave me the experience to quickly adapt to everything that is not dumbed down to the level of a 2 year old - because yes, unfortunately, 2 year olds have to be able to use everything as they're shut up with cellphones and such. Oh, I'm still in the same mood. Not good. Gotta paste that smile, it's market day.
To be fair, democracy is exhausting. If the population isn't engaged enough then politicians get away with enacting policy that only helps their donors to the detriment of their constituents.... and in the US, you have to be engaged constantly because policy is literally life and death for the more vulnerable in the population, and Republicans specifically constantly pass laws to make it harder for people to stay engaged (ie, making voting harder, etc).
Absolutely true. One of my arguments for the post-to-be is just that, more hindering to democracy, as well as the economic system absorbing so much energy that real informative behavior is reserved for those who have the money to have time to engage in democracy.
It's so apparent in the US. Voting is on a Tuesday and in wealthy locations it takes only a couple of minutes to vote, but in poorer, more diversity locations, voting can take 8-9 hours and now it's illegal to give out water to people standing in line.
Even in Australia, you see a lot of housing projects voted against by local councils because the only people voting are retirees who are financially motivated to keep their property values as high as possible.
I wish there were the words to describe this... we're not living in a true democracy, we're actually in an energymocracy or timocracy or something.