Okay. This may not fit here; mods can move it about as they see fit.
But I found a little (180-minute) presentation, there on the Sump of Eww. It may have been linked on this board, or the other board, I didn't make a note. My habit is, when I see something, or get a YOU MAY LIKE and the title looks promising...I'll strip the audio and save it; and I get to it days, or weeks, later.
This is one of those.
The AI presentation - yup, it's AI all the way - focuses on the political theories of
Villfredo Pareto - the author known for the 80:20 Principle. And some other concepts far more interesting. I admit I knew next to nothing of the man, other than the Principle.
He also had a few theories of the social and political structure of societies. The model used before him, was the Fox and the Lion. How the Elites in a society would take charge, or protect from threats, as would a lion; but must run a stable society as would a fox, with cleverness and subtlety.
Pareto's belief - defended well here (and now ignored in PoliSci classes) is that the Foxes and the Lions are two different types. The Lions use force, to impose order and to vanquish threats. Nothing clever or subtle. Through Elite Circulation, the Lions are slowly replaced by Foxes - the financiers; the diplomats; the unseen manipulators.
And when the crash or reorganization comes, it is always when Foxes are in control and cannot see the re-emergence of Elite Lions. Their answer is always basically the same - "
That's just MADNESS."
The Lions come, and re-calibrate the social structure or build a new one, and, in 80 years or 250, the cycle repeats. The Lions do their work; the public wearies of brute force and comes to favor or accept the quiet subtlety of the Foxes. The Foxes come in, loot, create the Wealth Pump, and eventually create a situation they cannot find a way to gloss over, hide or correct.
Like I said, it's AI; and yes, it plods on. Try to deal with the fake Toff British accent; and don't bother with the CGI graphics. Listen to it. It displays...I won't say, "insight," AI's failing is it's incapable of insight...but it connects things in ways most people have not, yet.
It's basically a Black-Pill presentation, although the last eight minutes offers a hope of reversal. It sounds as false as the rest of it rings true.
I found it worthwhile. Put it on a flash drive and listen to it when in traffic, or going somewhere on the Interslab.
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