An excellent, if IMO overly long break-down on the historic similarities in what we see now to interwar European politics. That said, as with many of these pieces I am infuriated at the lack of...
An excellent, if IMO overly long break-down on the historic similarities in what we see now to interwar European politics. That said, as with many of these pieces I am infuriated at the lack of proposed solutions after all that. This is all we get:
"Any successful future movement will have to position itself as both part of the public and prove it can deliver pro-social, material results. A healthier civil society has to be rebuilt from the bottom up. Despite lacking coherence, anti-politics is effectively the real movement: a symptom of a deep fissure that can no longer be ignored."
So... politics needs to deliver results and include people? You don't say. I don't see how you effectively do that any differently than mass participation in existing systems, or recreating systems of voting and hierarchy all over again. Mass-consensus like Occupy Wallstreet tried is a recipe for inaction, misrepresentation, and failure.
An excellent, if IMO overly long break-down on the historic similarities in what we see now to interwar European politics. That said, as with many of these pieces I am infuriated at the lack of proposed solutions after all that. This is all we get:
So... politics needs to deliver results and include people? You don't say. I don't see how you effectively do that any differently than mass participation in existing systems, or recreating systems of voting and hierarchy all over again. Mass-consensus like Occupy Wallstreet tried is a recipe for inaction, misrepresentation, and failure.