The populist governments are thwarted by the fact that the establishment holds all the levers of power. They are the ones that have signed up to the international treaties and agreements that have taken decision making powers away from the electorate. The establishment run the civil service, local councils, cps, are the judges, run the BoE and OBR, run the police, run HR departments across the country, set policies and put all the laws into place that created the idea of hate crimes and hate speech and wrote protected groups etc into law. The House of Lords is controlled by the establishment and even the political party's internal mechanisms for selecting candidates and removing candidates are put together by the establishment. Finally you have the Media, - which even with the internet and social media, drives the agenda - which is totally run by the establishment.
At an international level the establishment have the backup from the UN, EU, IMF, WHO and practically every other international organisation.
So for a populist government to seize true power they have to be willing to be far more ruthless and seize these levers. Repeal law after law, and treaty after treaty. Disband quangos, charities, sack judges, sack those who run the police and civil service, and directly attack the power bases of the establishment, and use the power of the people to back you up on the streets if need be.
History shows that once you threaten the careers of those who don't do their jobs, they quickly fall into line.
I think Trump has learned these lessons. if he won a second term I think he would be far more ruthless with the mechanics of government and taking control where control needs to be taken.
I like the idea that tech innovation is what is needed to jump start growth, even more than free trade. Stagnating tech innovation is a subject close to my heart.
But you also got my attention with mention of post-modernism, and elsewhere dismissal of AI as not abductive. If you're looking for a positive interpretation for post-modernism which embraces them both, you might look at my interpretation of subjective truth in this presentation at AGI-21. In this interpretation post-modernism, or more precisely subjective truth, is not so much a necessary deconstruction, but stripped of the obsession with power and anchored in the perceptual world again, reinterpreted to be a basis for creativity in AI.
Vector Parser - Cognition a compression or expansion of the world? - AGI-21 Contributed Talks
The populist governments are thwarted by the fact that the establishment holds all the levers of power. They are the ones that have signed up to the international treaties and agreements that have taken decision making powers away from the electorate. The establishment run the civil service, local councils, cps, are the judges, run the BoE and OBR, run the police, run HR departments across the country, set policies and put all the laws into place that created the idea of hate crimes and hate speech and wrote protected groups etc into law. The House of Lords is controlled by the establishment and even the political party's internal mechanisms for selecting candidates and removing candidates are put together by the establishment. Finally you have the Media, - which even with the internet and social media, drives the agenda - which is totally run by the establishment.
At an international level the establishment have the backup from the UN, EU, IMF, WHO and practically every other international organisation.
So for a populist government to seize true power they have to be willing to be far more ruthless and seize these levers. Repeal law after law, and treaty after treaty. Disband quangos, charities, sack judges, sack those who run the police and civil service, and directly attack the power bases of the establishment, and use the power of the people to back you up on the streets if need be.
History shows that once you threaten the careers of those who don't do their jobs, they quickly fall into line.
I think Trump has learned these lessons. if he won a second term I think he would be far more ruthless with the mechanics of government and taking control where control needs to be taken.
I like the idea that tech innovation is what is needed to jump start growth, even more than free trade. Stagnating tech innovation is a subject close to my heart.
But you also got my attention with mention of post-modernism, and elsewhere dismissal of AI as not abductive. If you're looking for a positive interpretation for post-modernism which embraces them both, you might look at my interpretation of subjective truth in this presentation at AGI-21. In this interpretation post-modernism, or more precisely subjective truth, is not so much a necessary deconstruction, but stripped of the obsession with power and anchored in the perceptual world again, reinterpreted to be a basis for creativity in AI.
Vector Parser - Cognition a compression or expansion of the world? - AGI-21 Contributed Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FmOblTl26Q