What does the coming year hold?

As soon as the "interesting things" began in 2020, they still do not end. Every year presents something that we did not expect at all. What to expect this year?

My guess in a picture :-)

You ask, why not Donald Trump!? Well, because he is from the old generation and is already too old. And here is Elon Musk representing the increasingly influential new generation of technocrats-informaticers, whose brains are structured differently and therefore they think differently and at a different level of abstraction. The thinking of the new generation is fundamentally incomprehensible to the old generation, and the new ones have their own vision of the future of society. They have already created their own technologies for information and capital management. They are already becoming politicians. All that remains is to reorganize the bureaucracy according to themselves, but this will be possible only after taking control of the secret services and other institutions of force.

And what about Trump? Trump is paving the way for the new ones with indomitable stubbornness and energy, without realizing it himself. This will be their first attempt to implement their vision and it will be called "the fight against bureaucracy". Let's see how they will succeed.

It is difficult to predict how good or bad it will be, after all, the vision of the 19th century technocrats did not come true the first time either, and when it did come true in the 20th century, it was even in several versions and some of them were very sad.

But let's be optimistic and hope and wish each other the best. We live in very interesting times.

2025-01-01

This text on X: https://x.com/AlgisDziugys/status/1874508015178805625

Žinutė FB: https://www.facebook.com/algis.dziugys.1/posts/1778432552947941

Other readings:

*) Thermodynamics of society - the law of the growth of bureaucracy (in Lithuanian).

*) Socio-dilettantology: Inclusive dilettantism and the cycles of change of rulers (in Lithuanian) (a long and difficult essay about bureaucracy and other rulers).