You know how contaminated the Greens are here, that was literally how we started talking back in the day, right? A Green New Deal ... starting here in the Big Blue Wall ... maybe. But draw a line from the southeast to the mountain west ... that's going to be a big fat failed parastate.
The time factor is critical, and I’m glad you draw attention to the role it plays in shock-and-awe authoritarian incursions. I think we (collectively) need to assess it in a cultural context for a fulsome articulation, alongside analyses of legislative resistance.
The US seems infatuated with accelerationist approaches, whereas many (if not all/most) European nations are a bit more suspicious of the move-fast-and-break-things approach. The prevalence of constitutional monarchies may have something to do with that, as it seems to create a degree of stability or ‘state viscosity’.
The UK is shaping up to be a test of that hypothesis. Farage’s Trumpian tactics are undoubtedly attractive to the protest vote (I’d better not say too much about that demographic, because I’ll be rude and this isn’t Tw*tter), but I see the beginnings of a healthy, very British rejection, and life outside social media continuing pretty much as it always was, without any apparent revolutionary appetite.
The polls suggest something completely different, of course. I can’t see the physical reality they claim to represent, to the point that I am wondering if astroturfing has levelled up.
We live in interesting times, as they say. Thanks for your writing.
You know how contaminated the Greens are here, that was literally how we started talking back in the day, right? A Green New Deal ... starting here in the Big Blue Wall ... maybe. But draw a line from the southeast to the mountain west ... that's going to be a big fat failed parastate.
The time factor is critical, and I’m glad you draw attention to the role it plays in shock-and-awe authoritarian incursions. I think we (collectively) need to assess it in a cultural context for a fulsome articulation, alongside analyses of legislative resistance.
The US seems infatuated with accelerationist approaches, whereas many (if not all/most) European nations are a bit more suspicious of the move-fast-and-break-things approach. The prevalence of constitutional monarchies may have something to do with that, as it seems to create a degree of stability or ‘state viscosity’.
The UK is shaping up to be a test of that hypothesis. Farage’s Trumpian tactics are undoubtedly attractive to the protest vote (I’d better not say too much about that demographic, because I’ll be rude and this isn’t Tw*tter), but I see the beginnings of a healthy, very British rejection, and life outside social media continuing pretty much as it always was, without any apparent revolutionary appetite.
The polls suggest something completely different, of course. I can’t see the physical reality they claim to represent, to the point that I am wondering if astroturfing has levelled up.
We live in interesting times, as they say. Thanks for your writing.
the situation in the uk is completely different. The usa has several sub cultures merging into a disastrous whole.
Top down?
Top are all too comfortable doing nada. Soaking up the benefits.
it is how to defeat it. whether American politicians listen is a different matter. I cant influence that.