My theory is that the foundational problem is hubris. Everyone sees problems around them and thinks they can personally concieve the complete system enough to solve those problems personally. Thus, they create bureaucrats to enforce economic controls to fix things, caps on grain price is a classic.
The unaccountable bureaucrats are the problem, but then one would also have to admit that they can't see the full picture. No one wants to give up their power or think less of themselves, so they keep tightening the screws instead of admitting that the existence of those controls is why they failed. It is innate to restrictive economic policy.
As the lies to justify themselves stack, they need to disconnect from reality in a very significant, notably ruinous way.
Basically it discusses critical theory, especially critical race theory, in such a way to try to help you understand what they actually believe. What's happening now is the poison pill of critical theory is reaching critical mass. They've labeled liberalism (in the Lockean sense), philosophy, and science as the enemy (thus masculine/white) and believe in other 'ways of knowing', especially "direct experience" and storytelling. Instead of seeking knowledge they 'problematize' which is described well in that link, it's basically seeking ways to demonize everything.
This concept married with postmodernism and became straight up fucking evil and now it's undermining the central tenets of our way of life. IMO this is the foundational problem, it's the growth of this horrific ideology.
My theory is that the foundational problem is hubris. Everyone sees problems around them and thinks they can personally concieve the complete system enough to solve those problems personally. Thus, they create bureaucrats to enforce economic controls to fix things, caps on grain price is a classic.
The unaccountable bureaucrats are the problem, but then one would also have to admit that they can't see the full picture. No one wants to give up their power or think less of themselves, so they keep tightening the screws instead of admitting that the existence of those controls is why they failed. It is innate to restrictive economic policy.
As the lies to justify themselves stack, they need to disconnect from reality in a very significant, notably ruinous way.
I got sucked into this (fantastic) site's rabbit hole the other day - https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematize/
Basically it discusses critical theory, especially critical race theory, in such a way to try to help you understand what they actually believe. What's happening now is the poison pill of critical theory is reaching critical mass. They've labeled liberalism (in the Lockean sense), philosophy, and science as the enemy (thus masculine/white) and believe in other 'ways of knowing', especially "direct experience" and storytelling. Instead of seeking knowledge they 'problematize' which is described well in that link, it's basically seeking ways to demonize everything.
This concept married with postmodernism and became straight up fucking evil and now it's undermining the central tenets of our way of life. IMO this is the foundational problem, it's the growth of this horrific ideology.