Quote from: The Brain on December 30, 2025, 05:03:34 PMQuote from: HVC on December 30, 2025, 09:54:31 AMSo, based on social media latest season of stranger things sucks, huh?
Have only seen a couple of episodes yet. So far it's just more of the same. My impression is that the season won't add anything significant, and that they could have ended the show after S4. But I'm ready to be surprised.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 31, 2025, 10:45:49 AMSounds like all of academia. We're taught what we already collectively know, which was acquired in the past. Libraries are full of books that were written in the past.

Quote from: Josquius on January 01, 2026, 01:02:52 PMBut I don't think it's good to lean too far in this "anti imperialist" direction.I've said before but on a lot of stuff I am basically an old school Third Worldist
Looking at the big picture global trends are not great this past decade.
And not at all thinking about what is best for me /Britain here but humanity overall (in which I do think there's a huge overlap in a lot of things except the very particular stuff about me becoming a little bit rich)
(Edit: I went on holiday to Indonesia and literally visited Bandung to see the museum of the Bandung Conference and was, weirdly, interviewed by Japanese journalists who were there because it was the 70th anniversary
) But I take your point and I'm not necessarily celebrating this or saying that what's coming is better. I'm saying that the perspective from Europe is of an ending (which I think is happening) and of threat - but I don't think that's the sense everywhere.
) I actually think the era we're heading into will be one of a fusion of state and corporate power. In some areas, I think that will proceed through the dismantling of state power and subjugation of political power to the economy and corporate interests (who are delivering the objectives of the "state" in its place). In other areas I think it'll take the form of a minimal state delivering needs to a level necessary to maintain some popular consent, accompanied with looting by political-corporate elites. I think in others, primarily the Communist party states like China, there will still be a mid-20th century vision of the state and political power which will subjugate corporate power to political ends but that the top ends of all three will be exceptionally blurred. Quote from: crazy canuck on January 01, 2026, 12:08:08 PMToo bad we can't ignore the US impact on climate change.
QuoteSure - that concerns you.
My point was that it's a question of perspective. I ultimately think the perspective that we're in the intro of a post-apocalyptic movie is one that's basically quite limited. I suspect from Africa it looks very much like BAU, from India and China and Asia more generally I think there are reasons for optimism for many.
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