Saturday, February 22, 2025

From democracy to oligarchy

Bernie Sanders argues how in making MAGA,it is creating an oligarchy in which the super elite is controlling both the power and wealth of the nation and also the advanced technology too .So China content creator were so creative to use AI to create mini dramas of Musk as a powerful Ming dynasty eunuch who dismantles the bureaucracy with his DOGE.strategy.In cutting out Mediaid to low income families,will the exorbitant health policies see a rise of poverty due to soaring medical care costs and infant mortality increase as its cheaper to die than to survive . in dismantling the Education bureau will it lead to a drop in global education standard and erode the power of education to bridge the yawning wealth gap between social classes. Will deconstruction lead to a new world of reconstruction or looming destruction? lessons from history shows the fall of empires due to internal decay,concentration of wealth in small elite groups,corruption and etc,then its the loss of soft power and subsequently hard power.The fall of the Roman empire,the Ottoman empire and the breaking up of the Soviet Union are testament in history But the next global superpower that emerges isnt from nation states geopolitical rivalries as we assume.It will be the start of technocrats not bureaucrats that will control the power n wealth that shape the way children grow up,the way we are educated,the way we consume and live and socialise ,the way we trade and the currency of trade and the way wars are lost and won. When you expect the tech industry to self regulate,it will surely protect its self interest first . Has the legal system kept up with changes in power of tech to commit crimes like scams,deep fakes or crypto crimes ?So technology can undermine the regulatory power of nation states as it reaches beyond national borders to global influence.Look at how at his inaugration the president of a superpower is surrounded by tech giants who will control the source of polital power that shapes a nation state.Its not the peoples representatives who decides the fate of the grassroots but the technocrats. When the President of the Red state turns to the private sector to rejuvenate a slowing economy,he invites not the industralists or financiers but spotlights on the top technocrats of advanced tech firms for brainstorming on how their contributions can galvanise the economy.Directly or indirectly the technocracy will soom rule over every aspect previously determined by nation states.The history of the nation state is predicted to change in unimaginable ways.we are looking at a brave,new world.

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