The Fourth Turning Is Here

[Logen Ninefingers]

You could just link this BS, there’s no need to copy paste it here. Some of our dutiful protagonist academics think Wikipedia is the source of truth, we can read it and decide for ourselves.

What BS? You've got anger issues by the sounds of it. You have to sign up to some of these sites (no, not Wiki!) to access the content, you should be thanking me.

[Azz]

What BS? You've got anger issues by the sounds of it. You have to sign up to some of these sites (no, not Wiki!) to access the content, you should be thanking me.

Logen Ninefingers pasted a paywalled (or forced registrationed) article. What the hell's wrong with that, Baa_Baa?

[Baa_Baa]

Logen Ninefingers pasted a paywalled (or forced registrationed) article. What the hell's wrong with that, Baa_Baa?

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[Logen Ninefingers]

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Yes, so that precludes the posting of links as well. Pull your head in. Why describe the material as ‘bs’ in any case? Cognitive dissonance perhaps?

[Azz]

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That wasn't your original complaint though, was it. You wrote:

You could just link this BS, there’s no need to copy paste it here. Some of our dutiful protagonist academics think Wikipedia is the source of truth, we can read it and decide for ourselves.

[moka]

Capitalism Isn’t Democratic

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/06/no-capitalism-isnt-democratic

Authoritarianism is on the rise despite the liberal prediction that the spread of free markets would result in more democracy – that's because capitalism will always defend social hierarchies against the threat of economic equality.
It’s increasingly hard to ignore the fact that democracy around the world is in retreat.

On the one hand, many of the world’s most powerful states—from China to Saudi Arabia—are governed by authoritarian regimes that seem only to be growing in strength. On the other hand, the respect for liberal democratic norms—like the right to protest and the independence of the judiciary—is on the decline in established regimes.

In total, around 72 percent of the world’s population lives under some form of authoritarian rule, according to some experts. Researchers at Freedom House claim that around 38 percent of the world’s population live in countries that can be characterised as ‘not free’. Liberal academic Larry Diamond has termed the retreat of democracy around the world a ‘democratic recession’.

The erosion of democracy has been particularly hard for liberals to conceptualise. After all, things were not supposed to be this way.
The combination of capitalism and democracy was supposed to bring prosperity and progress to all nations that adopted them. For a brief time after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when globalisation went into overdrive, this seemed a believable story. The financial crisis brought this collective delusion to an end in the global North.