EL MAYOR MITO DE LA HISTORIA (JOHN GRAY)

I just came across a quote from General De Gaulle, who I someone I admire very much, who when he was walking through the um university area of Paris during the student upheavalss of 1968, came across a um a graffiti which said, roughly translated,kill all the fools and he turned to a reporter and said, "A vast project." 

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 And what this relates to is the fact that um the transmission of moral knowledge, moral sentiment, moral judgment is very easily disrupted.Uh hardly ever do you get a high level of freedom and peace and uh concord in society for more than two or three generations. Even when improvement is real, there's normally a shadow and it's almost always I would say always reversed and what is gained sometimes there are real gains um is lost and that's a hard hard thing for people in our generation which who've been raised on the idea that  next generation will be not just materially better off than the existing one which by the way is now doubtful very doubtful but somehow morally even.

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I'm often criticized as being politically inconsistent or changing as politics change. Politics is not for me a universal project of human emancipation. Politics is a succession of partial and temporary expedience for dealing with recurring human evils. And they're different to some extent.They're occurring over history, but they're somewhat different in each generation.

 

EL DIAGNÓSTICO Y EL PRONÓSTICO DE NUESTRO MUNDO HISTÓRICO (LOS NUEVOS LEVIATANES (I))

 

 

 Los nuevos Leviatanes

“A law may be conceived to be good, when it is for the benefit of the sovereign, though it be not necessary for the people; but it is not so.For the good of the sovereign and people, cannot be separated.It is weak sovereign, that has weak subjects; and a weak people, whose sovereign wanteh power to rule them at his will"

Hobbes (Leviathan, chapter 30) 

The metaverse is a projection of the human world, not a way out of it.

(JG, page 49) 

Instead of China becoming more like the west, the West has become more like China. In both, the ruling economic system is a version of state capitalism. In each, wealth is heavily concentrated in small groups with powerful political leverage. 

Both systems are variants of state capitalism, but the relations between capital and the state are reversed.

Only if China's leaders make major mistakes can the West hope to prevail.

That does not mean America will hand supremacy to China.India will not accept such an outcome, nor probably, will Japan. The upshot of the struggle for hegemony will be a world with no hegemonic power. 

The model for Xi’s proyect of total control is not Chinese but British. If anyone can be said to have originated the project of a surveillance society, it was Jeremy Bentham.

During the short post-Cold War era of globalization, a "rules based" global liberal order seemed to be in place, which some beleived would endure indefinitely.This supposed liberal order is now history ...Its passing has exposed the realities it concealed.

Renewable energy is a fossil fuel derivative.The transition to renewable energy in which so much has been invested in the West is a chimera.

 

 

Since I realised there are many people who have a weak memory, I made a better chart to help them.

1 - The oil shock hasn't hit yet, but it is about to
2 - Stocks will bottom when stimmies will be issued to the population to pay for higher oil prices

Feel free to bookmark https://t.co/0I8GgrBrel pic.twitter.com/PQ4HxoqueI

— JustDario 🏊‍♂️ (@DarioCpx) April 18, 2026

EL CAMINO ORDENADO DE LA GUERRA ("DE VERSALLES A LA CIBERNÉTICA" (II))

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Mao interview with André Malrux (1965)) 

If, therefore, we really want to know what are the significant points in history, we have to ask which are the moments in history when attitudes were changed.These are the moments when people are hurt because of their former "values".

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Similarly, the important question about history is: Has the bias or setting been changed? The episodic working out of events under a single stationary setting is really trivial. It is with this thought in mind that I have said that the two most important historic events in my life were the Treaty of Versailles and the discovery of cybernetics. 

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 From the point of view of the people who started the mess, it’s not so crazy; they know what happened and how they got there. But the people down the line, who were not there at the beginning, find themselves living in a crazy universe, and find themselves crazy, precisely because they do not know how they got that way. 

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You will notice that everything I said about history and about Versailles is a discussion of organized systems and their properties. Now I want to say that we are developing a certain amount of rigorous scientific understanding of these very mysterious organized systems. 

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The stance that I have taken in choosing what is important in history—saying that the important things are the moments at which attitude is determined, the moments at which the bias of the thermostat is changed—this stance is derived directly from cybernetics. These are thoughts shaped by events from 1946 and after. 

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But pigs do not go around ready-roasted. We now have a lot of cybernetics, a lot of games theory, and the beginnings of understanding of complex systems. But any understanding can be used in destructive ways. 

This lecture was given April 21, 1966, to the “Two Worlds Symposium” at Sacramento State College.

Gregory Bateson ("From Versailles to Cybernetics")