Well written! Yeah his essay was better than most remember it as (but to be fair, what their remembering was what is in the general zeitgeist of the 1990s, not the specifics of his essay) but at least for the USA, where I'm at, it was still way off because what he was ultimately saying had “won” was nearly completely de-democratized centralized technocratic managerialism, but that had been failing from the get go, it was already performing worse than it predecessor, even according to its own (stupid) key metrics such as real GDP growth, and it performed worse and worse as time went on and it more deeply entrenched itself. We’ve had fifty years of the technocratic dictatorship he was certain was a superior to the semi-populist, semi-decentralized, and semi-democratic systems it had replaced, it a prevailing argument can be now made that it is simply an inferior form of government and has been the entire time
Well written! Yeah his essay was better than most remember it as (but to be fair, what their remembering was what is in the general zeitgeist of the 1990s, not the specifics of his essay) but at least for the USA, where I'm at, it was still way off because what he was ultimately saying had “won” was nearly completely de-democratized centralized technocratic managerialism, but that had been failing from the get go, it was already performing worse than it predecessor, even according to its own (stupid) key metrics such as real GDP growth, and it performed worse and worse as time went on and it more deeply entrenched itself. We’ve had fifty years of the technocratic dictatorship he was certain was a superior to the semi-populist, semi-decentralized, and semi-democratic systems it had replaced, it a prevailing argument can be now made that it is simply an inferior form of government and has been the entire time