Trust in government is at an all time low, the economy is in out of control stagflation that’s going to collapse into a depression, trust in our schools and universities are plummeting with more parents taking their kids out of public school every year, media empires like Disney and Warner Brothers, and streaming services are all in deep shit, Hollywood gets completely blown out of the water this month by two great movies out of Japan at the box office, even video games, comic books and even fucking table top RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons etc are all becoming stagnant and struggling now because of woke!
Just all at the same time somehow! I’m sure there’s other woke industries that I haven’t noticed at others might have, but watching all these major pillars of the public sector all beginning to show signs of cracking under pressure and at the risk of insolvency in some cases just goes beyond mere coincidence with everything else happening behind the scenes.
Are the patriots REALLY that much in control? Or is it simply the public becoming so sick of the woke virus that it’s blowing back at them right as the election season begins to warm up. All possibly leading to some major 2024 catastrophe in all areas of life, before 2025 and the ship starts to right itself again with the DS purge?
Russian vidya games are just better, Have been for several decades.
In the public sector, I have been looking at a Digital Transformation (and this transformation is advancing every year, and it is global). Once Local Councils take on software to deal with their operations, there are several things that happen:
the 'clients' (you and me) generally get a better and more prompt service, and that's good.
In general software makes it much harder to 'fudge' things, because everything is recorded, with reasons, and it is audited. Bye bye much of the corruption, pocket stuffing and bribes.
The people who interface with the 'clients' become more empathetic - i.e. they realize that public service = serving the public, not screwing them with arbitrary rules. Although some will try and stick to the law and become little tyrants, this is not the norm, and once those petty tyrants cause a few court-cases for the council, they are also weeded out.
The people with the fingers on the keyboards (i.e. front-facing) have more discretion than the 'managers'. This is very unsettling for those who got themselves well-paying jobs by greasing themselves up the ladder in the 'old system'. Power to the pepes and all that. The keys-to-the-kingdom belonged to the managers before, with great flourish, and now, it is impossible to micro-manage the pedes, because the operators have to make micro-decisions with every keystroke.
And yes, this is all part of the Collapse of the old guard. The seeming correlation between industries can be traced to software development, IMO.
Also the 'woke' thing is due to the disastrous ESG rules developed by the WEF, who are desperate to keep their grip and relevance.
Very much aware of the ESG and the WEF and Blackrock behind it all. Everything else you said is very interesting though.
Also any good Russian games you can recommend?
I hear Atomic Heart is pretty good.
Sorry gunna rant, but the subject is a hobby of mine, as I believe in a relatively peaceful transition into the future, and that having Local Governments act functionally, is most important - i.e. clean streets, less crime, functional housing etc.
Support your local Sherriff and Building Inspectors etc.
Re: the Digital Transformation (and no, it is not really Industrial Revolution 4.0 as some WEFfers try to make out). I can give you some keywords now, so you can search for yourself, on google scholar:
The cutting edge may be found with Public Service Motivation
Public Service Logic and the older Service Logic
Digital Transformation + Municipalities or Councils or Local Government
... and you can contrast the theories with the 40-year old, established management theory:
New Public Management + history and to embellish it, Productivity Management + Public Service
The key to thinking in the late nineties, was that people thought that computers (hardware) would finally gather enough data, and store it, to make a difference to the Public Service, globally. Of course they were premature, and the result was that computers were used for spreadsheets, and making graphs for execs to read, and not much else, while most councils continued using paper for their 'clients' to use, but at least they tried, right?
Then, quasi-academics/strategy aficionados tried to equate public service with the private sector - ring in New Public Management - and installed board structures and executive teams etc., with a goal to cut back on expenses and centralize everything - which gave some people the idea of an end-goal of World Government (hehehe, they were rubbing hands together and salivating): But the Local Governments were hampered by a lack of software, and arguably, a lack of understanding of how Public Service actually works differently from the Private Sector, especially post-transformation. Also, scholars did not anticipate the sheer diversity of public need - i.e. one council is not like the other - so that there was no one-size-fits-all solution, in terms of making Public Service employees work harder and faster, and furthermore, most councils only wanted to reduce their budgets.
Some of the most interesting reads are from scholars in Finland (at the leading edge partly because the diversity between councils is exaggerated), Poland/Ukraine (Lvov University, for Logic, pure and simple), and the Netherlands (for some of the productivity studies). As I said, the effects of a digital transformation in Public Service are well documented all over the world, and surprisingly, ex-Soviet countries are having similar beneficial results (in terms of what I was talking about, previously) to Western countries, - but I argue that USA, Australia and UK are lagging behind, for example, Japan and South Korea, because they are still mired in nepotistic hiring practices and closed-door decision making - not a meritocracy, that is more well-established in digital workplaces.
Also, the Turkish, Chinese, and Russian spaces need watching with the help of Google translate - but that is another ballgame.
roulet