What does the deprogramming effort for all of this eventually look like? Or does it happen?
I haven't seen deprogramming as I think you are suggesting for my entire adult life. The closest I've seen is a pause button that slows down the machine as it negotiates with the crisis producing organs. I don't think they're quite as pliable as you suggest, but I agree the people aren't the main issue.
The problem is we're left with a ruling class made up solely of people who are practiced in little else but our familiar little routines. The last vestiges of the adults in the room generation -- the ones who consciously decided to turn up the heat for worthwhile ends -- are dying off. Because of that, deprogramming is unlikely to come in return to normalcy form. If it does come, I expect it will be in a refreshing, possibly progressive or radical package. A breath of fresh air! I'll believe it when I see it.
The forever crisis has become too useful to too many. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs now benefit from if not rely on the arrangement. More importantly, so do many individual political careers. The end of democracy can't endure forever, yet I see no reason to believe why it can't endure the foreseeable future if we stay on an uncomfortable, but not-killing-each-other trajectory. At least Motte adjacent people somewhere will have a good hearty chuckle at the necessary rehabilitation of Trump, as to better contrast him against the next threat.
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I haven't seen deprogramming as I think you are suggesting for my entire adult life. The closest I've seen is a pause button that slows down the machine as it negotiates with the crisis producing organs. I don't think they're quite as pliable as you suggest, but I agree the people aren't the main issue.
The problem is we're left with a ruling class made up solely of people who are practiced in little else but our familiar little routines. The last vestiges of the adults in the room generation -- the ones who consciously decided to turn up the heat for worthwhile ends -- are dying off. Because of that, deprogramming is unlikely to come in return to normalcy form. If it does come, I expect it will be in a refreshing, possibly progressive or radical package. A breath of fresh air! I'll believe it when I see it.
The forever crisis has become too useful to too many. Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of jobs now benefit from if not rely on the arrangement. More importantly, so do many individual political careers. The end of democracy can't endure forever, yet I see no reason to believe why it can't endure the foreseeable future if we stay on an uncomfortable, but not-killing-each-other trajectory. At least Motte adjacent people somewhere will have a good hearty chuckle at the necessary rehabilitation of Trump, as to better contrast him against the next threat.
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