Comments by "Thurso Berwick" (@thursoberwick1948) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. The entire world seems to be being pressed into similar ideas today. Bad economic mismanagement, appeal to emotions, repressive laws masquerading as "safety" etc.
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  2.  @Yura135  We don't have a proper market economy in the west anymore. The government can shut things down at a whim and employs discriminatory taxation and even environmental tactics against smaller businesses and the general masses.
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  3.  @axelNodvon2047  Very true, but Russia has always looked to developing the Asian part. This became a priority in the lead up to WW2, and was even the case in the 19th century.
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  4. And it's good way of controlling the peasants. I'd expect this from Beijing not Delhi.
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  5. A sick social experiment by true believers.
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  6. And yet ironically, the programme of that tendency continues through universities and media in the west, while edifices such as the USSR and its monstrous defence system have collapsed.
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  7.  @OliverFlinn  ... it's also not a binary choice between two abusive and materialist systems as KM claimed.
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  8. Much cheaper, albeit slower, to employ soft power, and influence through educational institutions, media etc.
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  9. Imagine the PRC without the PR bit.
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  10. Removes the hassle of you being able to control your cash as well. This isn't "Indian", this is happening worldwide.
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  11. "Malicious compliance" — Oh yes, I am afraid this is more evident by the day.
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  12.  @ahndeux  I'm sorry you had to go through that. The trouble is that I hear young westerners endorsing this system and saying, "it hasn't been tried properly yet." I wonder how much more suffering people have to go through to prove it doesn't work.
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  13.  @lh2738  Environmental processes don't always work to human time. If you remove water from an artesian well, for example, the effects can tun up decades or centuries later. The effects of British industry during the Victorian era and pre-WW2 are still ongoing a century later or only just being repaired. And I agree with you. Much more could have been done to repair the Aral Sea in post-Soviet times. But cotton fields are more profitable.
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  14. The grains in deserts are too fine I think.
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  15.  @OliverFlinn  Whataboutery is not a defence.
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  16.  @OliverFlinn  I don't support systems that are inclined to kill or imprison me. Let alone ones that see us solely as economic units. And yes, that was classic whataboutery.
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  17.  @danghoangluong2942  I can think of a few factors. Here are some others I didn't mention: * Corruption on a massive scale. * Desertification and destruction of Aral Sea; other environmental disaster. * Western radio, and even TV, being listened to by people in the Communist bloc. * The expense of maintaining such a large military. * Bad trading deals with certain poor countries. * Better quality western goods getting into their market.
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  18.  @manofsan  He's done something about Soviet computers as well as about the Sri Lankan collapse, Japanese corruption and Singaporean success...
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  19.  @danghoangluong2942  Sort of. The War in Afghanistan also helped bring down the USSR. (Along with Solidarity in Poland, the Chernobyl disaster and the computing gap.)
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  20.  @cicik57  Cheap labour will soon be surplus to requirements... after automation is complete. That means billions of unemployed vs a few thousand very rich people. They know the odds are not good.
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  21.  @jaf378  The west has come to mirror it, and mutated forms of the same ideology are prevalent in western education systems. I was reading an Open University book on English literature from thirty years ago the other night and it was noticeable that many of the contributors were coming from that angle, notably Terry Eagleton... there were other historic figures such as Theodor Adorno and Franz Fanon quoted in the text who came from that angle too.
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  22. Argentina hasn't had a properly functioning economy in decades.
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  23. Terrible times. I hope you remind westerners of the cost that this system had upon people like yourself.
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  24.  @ahndeux  Yes, I agree with all that. Unfortunately there are attempts to roll out this system internationally. Some of the western leaders have been admiring the PRC, and its hybrid system, and many western youths like the philosophy.... One very PRC trait we see in the west now is how profit is private and debt is public. Many companies make money from state-owned infrastructure but the costs go to the public. Even Elon Musk is in on that game. Another PRC trait we see emerging elsewhere is their "social credit" system which is being introduced slowly.
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  25.  @Asianometry  The Russian Far East and its relationships with its neighbours would be interesting. They have the oddest relationship with North Korea of any of its three bordering countries.
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  26.  @romanregman1469  Mate, we could be here all day. I'll try and do a short version. Most artificial lighting does not supply adequate Vitamin D, which affects serotonin levels. In some cases, it can also be bad for people, because a light source will be oscillating at a high frequency triggering migraines, epilepsy and so on. There are also psychological aspects which are too complex to go into, other than name dropping claustrophobia. We are not really subterranean creatures. We can spend time in caves and shelters, but it is bad for us to spend long periods within them, and the effect is cumulative.
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  27.  @blondezeke6640  Slavery was around before capitalism. It will likely be around after it.
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  28.  @M3ganwillslay  If you want to live in a prison, that is your choice, but it is not yours to make for others. This is a step back into the Middle Ages, but with better technology.
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  29. Most of the USSR was in Asia... so...
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  30.  @ngolong4070  How so? The US government has admitted itself that it has conducted such experiments in the past along with chemical and nuclear weapons.
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  31. After it dropped the uglier aspects of M.ism.
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  32.  @nou4605  It's fact, not paranoia.
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  33.  @nou4605 Happening in 120 countries. Coincidence? You think it is.
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  34. @Based Madara Misplaced? These are the same folk who have helped collapsed the economy worldwide in the last couple of years. We are seeing shortages on multiple continents now. They are the last people I want in charge. This could have all been avoided if they'd behaved sligjtly differently. They should not have been allowed to collect debts and charge high interest when people were unable to work because of restrictions- and that's just one thing.
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  35.  @dasbubba841  So do private workers much of the time. Have you not noticed that a lot of the work private companies do now is for governments? In many cases, the profit is privatised and the debt is public.
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  36. Or the Soviet Union. Forgot that one, didn't you?
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  37.  @cicik57  Thing is that what I'm talking about recently ISN'T the market economy but quite the opposite. Raw capitalism is an ugly beast, but we are being forced through the so called "Fourth Industrial Revolution" just now by most governments. The only Industrial revolution which apparently requires worldwide gaslighting and censorship.
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  38.  @cicik57  These people are incredibly superficial in some respects. They can buy up superior intellects, but they are driven by the primitive instincts of greed and lust for power.
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  39.  @whysoserious7553  Not "whatever", ever heard of the World Economic Forum? They helped create the mess we are in now. Look up their website.
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  40.  @CRneu  There was a major and involuntary rollback of their biological programme after the USSR collapsed. A lot of their labs ended up in other countries.
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  41. Central planning is also a clear issue here. It meant that bureacuracy slowed developments and demand from industry etc.
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  42. Wrong type. I'm sure it can be adapted.
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  43. The records are buried. Deep.
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  44.  @blondezeke6640  Materialism is death.
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  45. Their entire history in a nutshell. It often became better when it moved away from its "ideals".
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  46.  @OkarinHououinKyouma  It's Feudal Ownership of the common people. You don't even have full control over your finances.
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  47.  @utkarshdwivedi6600  They cannot control how cash is used unlike this. Yes, health data will be put on your card. Along with other biometric data. That's the end goal. It won't necessarily start with a card either. "We are Indians" This is a global phenomenon, decided globally, in places you've likely never heard of, in meetings you've never heard of, nearly always outside India. One of these happens in Switzerland every year at Davos. The fact the Indian government has signed up to this shows that they are part of this phenomenon.
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  48.  @cat-man5522 Your ability to pay or be paid for anything can be switched off in a second remotely, that's how. It will happen accidentally or as a deliberate decision by someone.
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  49.  @cat-man5522  p.s. I had my bank account frozen some years ago. The bank was in the wrong and compensated me. Luckily, I a) had another bank account and b) had some physical money. But if I was wholly reliant on them, or whoever, I could have ended up in a lot of trouble quickly. That wasn't even malicious, it was a mistake. The moral of the story is never let anyone else fully control your finances. Including those above you.
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  50.  @shiveshsingh3169  I can use paper money to whoever I want, and the government cannot block me buying or selling with it. The government also doesn't know who spent what where with paper money. Unlike this. Paper money is nearly worthless, electronic payment is a method of surveillance and control.
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