dwarksidle

> Make of that what you will; the arrogance of some people to assume they know better than anyone else sure is stunning.

So you make this comment right after making a really reductive, ignorant comment on the Soviet planned economy collapse?

Yeah I'm 49. I was there. Watched Soviet Union fall on live TV. Berlin wall too. After years of intentional outside effort to force it to fall.

Market-driven has worked because media told everyone it has to work, and no other nations were strong enough to exert outside influence until modern China came along.

Tell everyone the Soviet economy must work without outside influence to collapse it, does it still collapse?

You're shipping propaganda of your culture.

Everything against US Gov + Intel staek I have seen is written by traditional business minds, likely with skin in this game.

They all ignore how 'market principles' have decimated the majority to ramble support for a scheme they almost certainly benefit greatly from.

To me, it's all nothing more than emergent anxiety of their biology. The world be changin' (due to many reasons but mostly generational churn) and who will they be relative to that new world? No different than a religious person shrieking about the decline in adherence to religious principles.

Biological VHS tape re-counting a fuzzy recollection of lived experience, these words. Nothing more.

Governments are scurred the internet has made everyone realize their governments are crap, their history is gibberish, and it's all being used to screw the next generation. So 60+ year olds are falling back on old tropes

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26328105

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seduction_of_the_Innocent

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Yanking the leash of the proletariat

TikTok is "brain rot" even though the real economy runs on physical statistics, the semantics have to be recognizable to the elders, or it's not democratic so they will force the semantics to be regurgitated as-if they are religious catechism.