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Generation '68: The Elite Revolution and Its Legacy
474 pages, Paperback
Published November 30, 2023
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September 21, 2024
In which the dynastic families of America and their Foundation philanthropies go all in on remaking the world to look like Star Trek, and set about flanking, pacing-and-leading, High+Low-v-Middling everything that spoils the composition. And also plan to secure a substantial risk-free global income stream in the process.
One fascinating insight is that the Long March was policy, at least of one part of the state. The Trotskyist true-believers, if such things exist, walked in through doors opened by Wall St and the foundations.
One less convincing one is the apparent dislike of Wall St for war (ie Vietnam): if true then, it's surely not so today when instability is the grist to arbitrage and quick profit.
I suppose the big question is the ancestry of the vision of Star Trek: the idea of a free-floating cosmopolitan order, post-race, post-nation, post-everything. What's the ancestry of lightness-of-being, of forgetfulness, of creative destruction being a great thing - not a cyclical thing, but rolling onwards forever? Is it the emergent will of Capital? And how does this elite work, with its feminine side: generous, careless, indulgent; and its masculine: machiavellian, panoptical, ruthless.. There's something Olympian about it, and the gods notoriously get bored with human order and peace.
One fascinating insight is that the Long March was policy, at least of one part of the state. The Trotskyist true-believers, if such things exist, walked in through doors opened by Wall St and the foundations.
One less convincing one is the apparent dislike of Wall St for war (ie Vietnam): if true then, it's surely not so today when instability is the grist to arbitrage and quick profit.
I suppose the big question is the ancestry of the vision of Star Trek: the idea of a free-floating cosmopolitan order, post-race, post-nation, post-everything. What's the ancestry of lightness-of-being, of forgetfulness, of creative destruction being a great thing - not a cyclical thing, but rolling onwards forever? Is it the emergent will of Capital? And how does this elite work, with its feminine side: generous, careless, indulgent; and its masculine: machiavellian, panoptical, ruthless.. There's something Olympian about it, and the gods notoriously get bored with human order and peace.
August 28, 2024
explores more deeply the oligarchic funding of liberal-leftists ideas and activism, you could say it is a more in-depth version of Bolton's previous book "revolution from above"
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