we truly do live in a new era
This highlights just how infantile the idea of a spontaneous revolution is. Large portions of the western left think that you just need to have a big rally, throw out the government you don't like, and build some sort of anarcho utopia. And of course, any actually organic protests quickly fizzle the way we saw with the occupy movement and George Floyd protests. These were absolutely massive in scale, but they had no staying power. People came out shouted some slogans, and then went to back home after a few days.
The big irony here is that the US has effectively adopted a vanguardist approach to running color revolutions where they groom and fund an ideologically aligned vanguard for many years, and then use it to create an ideologically aligned movement that is able to topple the government.
It's worth noting that there are also distributed efforts like Petals that avoid the need to have a big data centre to train and run models https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals
I was kind of luke warm on it for the first hour, but then I got enough of the story that I really started wanting to figure out wtf is going on and it just sucked me in. I think the really fun aspect of it is the whole groundhog day mechanic, and some of the solutions to the puzzles are kinda clever I found.
Yeah would be good to go get checked out, that's some scary stuff.
I tried to find it, but forget what to look for and now most search results give you stuff after the war. I remember it was him standing in the field somewhere talking to a guy in uniform, saying how he's the president and they have to do what he says. But I completely forget what the context for the whole thing was or even the year it happened.
it's as cynical as it is effective
This is the real genius of the way the west manipulates people in my opinion. Western approach focuses on ensuring that the mainstream narrative aligns with the interests of the oligarchs, with some dissenting voices being allowed at the fringes. Majority of people want to fit in, so they naturally adopt the views of people around them. Meanwhile, contrarian views being allowed on the fringes makes it possible for people to say there's no censorship, these views just aren't popular because they're nonsensical conspiracy theories, and so on. Thus, the very existence of alternative views further reinforces the belief in the mainstream narrative for the majority.
I do think there is a caveat to this though, which is that when the narrative strays too far from the material reality people experience then it starts running into problems. Hence why we're now starting to see increasing numbers of people falling out of the mainstream.
Incidentally, I thought this was an interesting interview where they point out the growing problems with the Ukrainian narrative and how Europe is now doubling down on censorship because the reality has diverged too far. https://youtu.be/HWvynzLu9yI
That's right, gotta make sure the government in exile lives in luxury that they're accustomed to.
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Oh yeah, the ruling class understands Marxism quite well in my opinion, and they're fighting the class war with both eyes open.