Elections, elections and after the election. It might seem that, in specified a situation, the parties who consider themselves representatives of society, or sometimes even the people, would ask themselves quite a few questions about what they did wrong, what they could do better, why people did not vote for them as much as they wished. 1 would think that individual would ask: what happened, that the people would alternatively vote for the super-right Confe than for us progressives. But someway specified voices can barely be heard in the choir of denial, moral aggression and contempt.
This is simply a typical example of the utmost affirmative feedback phenomenon, on which both neoliberal and totalitarian systems are based. This mechanism, in systemic terms, means that the strategy applies the ‘more of the same’ rule in consequence to different incentives. In the language of modern management this is called optimization, or strategy of best practices.
Best practice strategy
Optimization seems to be highly effective in the short term, causing concentration and consolidation of power and property. In the language of fresh sociology, this is called a vicious circle.
The strategy is not learning, even crises are not an chance to learn in this situation, but it is becoming increasingly inefficient in changing circumstances.
They do not know about this in general even its elite, due to the fact that unlike the control mechanics through the negative feedback, where different signals make the management rules correct – the affirmative feedback makes different signals ignored or erased from the strategy information register. As if there was nothing but the rules of the strategy – “there is no alternative”, as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proclaimed.
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Join us!Elites in a strategy controlled by negative couplings at least in part effort to be alert to different voices and possibilities – we know that even Charles de Gaulle appreciates the sensitivity to weak signals. In a strategy where affirmative feedback dominates, higher spheres take care of themselves.
The function of elites in political formations
Each formation has its elites that legitimize its actions, make visions and prepare management staff. In general, the formations besides have a spare elite in their bid to supply alternate visions. There is mostly besides any opposition: protesters, heretics, dissidents, revisionists. Depending on the sensitivity to weak signals, the strategy tolerates them more or less, but they are mostly visible.
On the occasion of any major change, there is an exchange of elites, due to the fact that they service as servants to existing structures.
The fresh elites constitution gently, utilizing the resources of loyal opposition – then we have a peaceful evolution of structures – or there is simply a extremist exchange. Sometimes violent erstwhile the rudder is taken over by “hard” opponents. There are besides “carriers of the middle”, trained within the strategy – their representatives with little or more ease “change the hats”, moving to the other side.
The destructive market
In the last century, there were free professions in many countries, employing academics, artists and people of culture on a permanent basis. Professions were autonomous and self-managing. Culture developers had jobs in countries like France, without the work to produce. The 1968 revolution was bottom-up and spontaneous, but it besides had full coverage from the planet of culture, science, reflection. This made her experience converted to sustainable cultural progress, and the limits of dismantling and reaction were not exceeded.
Now there are no specified professions – the planet of culture and discipline has been subjected to marketplace principles specified as productivity, competition, resource reduction. Everything left to regulate the free marketplace is deteriorated.
The marketplace is like a cep – it simplifies and destroys the complexity that is essential for development.
What we see is the consequence of advancement without complexity. In another words, successive waves of moral uplift and backlash are reflected in what happens erstwhile moral and cultural advancement appears to be on the market. It is not the liberal left that nullifies the culture ("cancel culture") – the culture was cancelled by neoconservatives and neoliberals who dismantled self-government professions.
Neoliberalism: Up and Down
The totalitarian systems do not tolerate the opposition. Thus, after the fall of the power structures, their societies sometimes conflict for a long time with the inability to catch a balance. Sometimes they become susceptible to alien influence. The present minute in past is special: although the strategy is not totalitarian at present, it celebrates itself as democratic and liberal, but it has been controlled on the rule of affirmative feedback for at least 30 years.
Neoliberalism has not only marginalized another options ("there is no alternative"), but has completely cut them off in the last decade, completely losing their sensitivity even to strong signals (COVID-19 pandemic, genocide wars, utmost right-wing march by democratic systems).
Neoliberalism in its educational institutions, through its media and cultural institutions created and supported only its own staff.
Science, art, social communication – everything has been redefined according to interior control rules. Publishers increasingly employment erstwhile publicists – no longer employed in the media – as editors. The same publicists are besides authors, judges assigning awards and book writers.
There is no longer a search for talent in the mediocre chamber or under the roof. The entrance to the “community” is guarded by gutkeepers from the same group. The discipline is increasingly represented by celebrities who do not always care about the reliability and credibility of their own – alternatively of archetypical, somewhat dusty researchers, who do not care about fame, but to search answers to complex questions. In this environment, methodological awareness is increasingly taken care of.
Art is frequently valued as a product and becomes a domain of people “from company” who can afford specified activity alternatively than artists who cross the boundaries of knowledge.
Autonomous communities grouped around these and another professions, crafts, ethos – which existed respective years ago on the margins – have late been “optimized”, i.e. completely devoid of backing and visibility, or are dissolved into neoliberal symbolic reality. This becomes increasingly black and white, increasingly linear, and morality is defined in duality ("with us" or "against us"). After the first sentence, it is mostly possible to identify the "political identity" of the speaker.
The strategy has even generated its own left – a tribute to its values, speaking its language, only in a peculiarly progressive avant-garde version. Masses beyond the scope of this symbolic domain fall into the utmost right, which does not guarantee their interests but at least does not show contempt for them. It does not, due to the fact that for the utmost right hand of the mass are a tool for gaining power – and it is simply a tool lying on the street. I can't be amazed she picked them up.
For decades the Neoliberals produced themselves all: center, hegemony and opposition, present, past and future. discipline and art, investigative journalism. They redefined the full world.
The strategy controlled by affirmative coupling is unstable, there is no support in reality.
It gives the impression of a powerful monolith, and in fact it is fragile, due to the fact that very simple, and reality – complex. Now we are observing the process of its intense destabilisation around the world, including in Poland.
The reactions from the inside are the same everywhere: no major projects to adapt and read weak signals, and alternatively almost desperate to sacrifice solutions that can simplify the management strategy even more. Among them are solutions based on alleged artificial intelligence. frequently it is just a marketing name for automation tools, structure and occupation management utilizing algorithms. Sometimes, however, large language models are added to the work, which – with unprepared, and easy on the news of the frame – can lead to even more chaos, as it is not easy to foretell and realize the performance of these models.
It is hard to tell how long this phase of destabilization will last – it depends on whether and to what degree the indicators, and so the financial markets, will absorb the current disturbances.
However, the financial markets are becoming seriously unstable – just recalling the “lost” information late 400 billion by American tycoons and ask: what does it mean that this value (80% of last year's gross of the Polish state budget) has been "lost"?
The question of who will take over the function of elites in the strategy without alternatives is equally interesting. We are not convinced of the scenarios of horror coming from the mediate of the system, saying that they will be barbarians and vandals, and crowds of peasants with torches. specified visions only talk about what modern elites fear – this is simply a image of their collective Shadow. After them, even the flood.
Just due to the fact that alternate thinkers, artists, scholars, journalists aren't on neoliberal maps doesn't mean they don't exist. Doesn't mean they don't think or have no knowledge. We know many of them personally, and we are not afraid of a planet where the last will be the first.
