It’s worth remembering that most people in the world today don’t live in liberal democracies, and there’s nothing inherently natural about a “progression towards democracy” or anything like that. All forms of human government is the result of people with different values and priorities competing for power. And it’s easier to be autocratic these days thanks to ubiquitous surveillance. China isn’t necessarily a historical relic but might be the model for world governments to emulate.
The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on U.S. technology that spies on them and predicts what they’ll do.
APnews, Dake Kang: Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
Here’s a fantastic article that sums up the different strands of the manosphere, and how the main point is hating women. We’re truly living in a shitty timeline, and reality reads like mix of Handmaids tale and The Screwfly Solution now – it’s depressing as all hell.
Across the manosphere, however, young people are told that before feminism ruined everything, women used to be cherished and pampered by their husbands. Now women are supposedly subsidized by government handouts or earning six figures in pointless “email jobs.” In the masculinist paradigm, every woman does HR for cats and every man is a plumber or merchant seaman.
The Atlantid, Helen Lewis: The Men Who Don’t Want Women to Vote.