Counteressay: The fundamental flaw in many Conservapedia International politics/relations essays
The fundamental flaw in many Conservapedia series of essays on International politics/relations is, it is leftover Cold War rhetoric from the 1980s. This "innovation" pitch and other rhetoric was used in the Reagan era to develop things like the cell phone & internet (which the liberals, communists, socialists and Democrats strenuously opposed). The world has changed.
It worked to get Congress to fund DARPA Research & Development, Wall Street to invest in things that could only be imagined, and bring down the stale Soviet Union. But China now (since it won MFN status and a whole bunch of other factors) is a different animal.
This "ideological" rhetoric (and actually, it isn't even that) as a propaganda tool is 40 years out of touch with the real world.
China studied closely what brought down the Soviet communist system (lack of innovation, for example) and is determined not to make the same mistakes.
The fundamental flaws and assumptions in these Essays are not only limited to these Essays. The flaws and assumptions originate in a frozen and fossilized mindset - like Marxists in the late stage of the Soviet Union - an unwillingness to adjust to social, political and economic developments because their ideology dictated to them that they could not change.
Economic and technological realties
- Share of young adults living with parents at Great Depression levels. But yeah, let’s celebrate GDP.
- David Stockman: Dot-Com Redux: The AI frenzy has gotten so out of kilter that 76% of the gain in real GDP was accounted for by feverishly surging investments in AI-oriented GPUs, network gear, server farms and data centers.
- JP Morgan: 75% of S&P 500 returns tied to AI stocks since ChatGPT; 95% of firms seeing zero return. [1]
- Is The AI Bubble Ready To Pop?
In Stockman's analyses above, he doesn't even go into the electrical grid needs to keep AI running by 2030, which is about 4 times greater than what we have now. So the United States has to buy uranium from Russia, which is under sanctions (unless you wanna kill us all with carbon emissions from coal burning plants).