“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.
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