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/316/ From Emergency to Emergency: 2022 Review, ft. Ashley Frawley (Patreon)

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2023-01-24 07:00:02
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2026-06
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On the key events and developments in 2022. 

We look back at how the world transitioned from the pandemic to war over the past year, and what the socio-political fallouts have been. Is everything "better than expected"? Has managerial technocracy been rejuvenated? 

We discuss whether we're in a Third World War, how the US empire is strengthening its grip on Europe, and how cultural populists are taking over from economic populists.

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Davka Smolah Collective

"Actually existing Brazilianization", lol. But also, I really disagree with Ashley on the synthesis of the Left and technocracy. There are plenty of socialist groups and sects, etc who have not accepted *neoliberal* technocracy; the problem is that they put forth their own form of technocracy. You're asked to choose between Brussels/Washington on the "center" and, if you're a "radical", Porto Alegre (Phil's coinage for the World Social Forum) on the Left. WTF DO YOU MEAN SOCIALISTS LIKE CATS? Give me my two dogs any day!

Door Maker

Kind Hearts and Coronets is an awesome film. Appreciated the shout out. Rian Johnson's Knives Out films are a very, very feeble imitation.

Richard R

Perhaps ironically--though perhaps exactly to the point--in the US, the primary opponents of social workers intervening in families are ethnic-identity- or local-community-based organizations. I myself am a social worker, and it is hard to argue with the personal experience of my Black or Latin clients, mainly convicts, that profess that the police, as well as my profession, rob those groups of their autonomy.

jkjkjkj

I think the biggest problem with the Covid->Ukraine emergency politics thesis is simply that it really doesn’t make sense. Firstly, very few of the covid public health restrictions are still in place in the west (even China, which imposed a draconian response to Covid, relented in its intensely recently). Secondly, there actually has been a decent amount of deliberation surrounding the war in Ukraine and it has achieved fairly significant support even in cases where it faced real tests of legitimacy (Meloni in Italy was elected as a fervent supporter of Ukraine despite running an otherwise insurgent right wing campaign; much of leftist and conservative media in the US made a significant show criticizing the war in Ukraine, as did elements of the GOP, ajd all performed poorly in the face of it, despite months of criticizing it, and despite these attacks, aid packages are routinely reauthorized; Germany’s political establishment has relented repeatedly in the face of caution, and the most hawkish elements of the Green Party have only received support for it). There’s perhaps an analysis to be done of how the Ukraine war has acted as a point of ideological religitimization of neoconservatism/interventionism after it’s discreditization after the War on Terror, but it’s an ideological critique, not necessarily one of emergency politics. Ukraine has been in the news for months, with plenty of points of fear and concern and there’s been little interest in limitation outside of extreme minoritarian peacenik movements. if anything, the emergency politics are those harranguing that we are constantly seconds away from nuclear doomsday and WW3 when the battlefield has seen little territorial progress, energy politics are (slowly) being sorted out and cases which risked direct escalation to conflict between Russia and NATO haven’t resulted in such