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Is It Possible to Have a Modern Industrial Society Without That Mobilization Elements?
The future in both the west andd and in china, looks somewhata dark. That that element of mass democracy, or mass participation, is is a disappearing. The hidden thing under d growth is actually that the the sort of more widespread wealth that modern societies de starts to evaporate from the bottom. So you now need to have increasing social control over that population. And as a result of that, you start leveraging more and more of your resources into maintaining the social control mechanisms, then into actually generating new wealth. This vicious cycle starts to form that's very difficult to arrest im it.