@nfergus: "The ejection of Maduro from C...

"The ejection of Maduro from Caracas is best understood as an invitation to turn the political clock back just over a century. The more I contemplate the contemporary scene, the more I think we have collectively accepted the invitation." 1/5

"Foreign policy is just one area where we’re attempting to turn back time. Tariffs, the price of groceries, immigration restriction, antisemitism, socialism, corruption, vaccines, arms races: The issues of our time are issues our great-grandfathers debated 120 years ago." 2/5

"You may insist that the world of today is unrecognizably different from the world of, say, 1906 because technology has changed everything. To my eyes, the striking thing is how little difference all the new technology has made to the nature of politics." 3/5

"That the age of AI is more 19th-century than sci-fi was foreseen by Neal Stephenson in his dazzling masterpiece, The Diamond Age, where the inequalities created by new technology manifested themselves in a neo-Victorian elite culture." 4/5

All this and much, much more in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/niall-fergus… 5/5