[P2P-F] Fwd: Year-End Roundup: In 2016, The World Passed The Tipping Point Into A Perilous New Era

[Michel Bauwens]

the global elite (see the editorial board <g>) on the revolt against the
global elite ?

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From: The WorldPost <highlights at theworldpost.com>
Date: Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:01 PM
Subject: Year-End Roundup: In 2016, The World Passed The Tipping Point Into
A Perilous New Era
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Year-End Roundup: In 2016, The World Passed The Tipping Point Into A
Perilous New Era
A search for identity amid the swell of anonymous forces from globalization
to technology drove this year’s anti-elite political upheaval.

By: Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-chief
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Last year, we were on the cusp. This year, we’ve gone over.

In the 2015 WorldPost Year-End Roundup
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we observed that we were then “on the cusp of a tipping point” in the race
between a world coming together and one falling apart. In 2016, we have
indeed tipped over into a new era.

The profound upheavals of this year were anticipated in an essay we
published in March titled “Why the World Is Falling Apart
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In that piece I wrote, “The fearful and fearsome reaction against growing
inequality, social dislocation and loss of identity in the midst of vast
wealth creation, unprecedented mobility and ubiquitous connectivity, is a
mutiny, really, against globalization so audacious and technological change
so rapid that it can barely be absorbed by our incremental nature. In this
accelerated era,” I continued, “future shock can feel like repeated blows
in the living present to individuals, families and communities alike.”

Revolt Against Global Elites
  Brexit shocked the world, but it wasn’t 2016’s only rebellion.

Economics and technology forged the worldwide convergence we have seen with
globalization over recent decades. But as people lose any sense of control
over their fate in this process, culture and politics engender the opposite
― a divergent search for shelter in the familiar ways of life that register
a dignity of recognition among one’s own kind and constitute identity
against the swell of anonymous forces.

The determination to “take back control” across the Western democracies
among those dispossessed by change was explosively expressed in 2016 in a
widespread revolt against the elite custodians of the status quo through
Brexit, the Trump victory and the ongoing anti-establishment insurgency in
Europe.

The “Great Reaction of 2016” may well have been justified because of the
decay of democracies captured by organized special interests. Too many were
left behind by unresponsive insiders. Yet the populist character of this
political awakening threatens more chaos ahead rather than fixing what ails
today’s vexed societies.

“Populism appeals to the ‘will of people,’ Julian Baggini
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wrote
in a piece for us last year, “but is actually profoundly undemocratic.
Democracy is about the negotiation of competing interests, the balancing of
different values. Populism, in contrast, is a kind of mob rule. Where there
is complexity, it offers simple solutions. Instead of seeking common
ground, it looks to exaggerate the differences between them and us. The
unquestioned righteousness of its own cause and means to its ends leads to
the demonization of those it opposes.”
The Turn Toward Autocracy and Nativism
 A summer coup attempt in Turkey this year tested President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan.

The close cousin of populist politics is the affinity for rule by strongmen
who fashion themselves as tribunes of the people. In the wake of the coup
attempt in Turkey earlier this year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
has tightened the screws in the place once thought to be the model of
democracy with Islamic characteristics. In an interview right after the
failed coup, Turkish novelist Elif Shafak
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lamented
the new course of events:

“There was already a rise in illiberal democracy in Turkey. There was
already a rise in authoritarianism. The country was already sliding
backwards
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and
now this! The ballot box in itself,” she said in words that apply to the
West as well, “is not enough to render a system a ‘democracy.’ A true
democracy needs separation of powers, rule of law, freedom of speech,
women’s rights, LGBT rights, free and diverse media and independent
academia. Without all these institutions and values you can only have
‘majoritarianism.’ And majoritarianism is not the same thing as democracy.”

Writing from New Delhi, Shashi Tharoor
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placed
a similar slide in India toward autocratic rule, intolerance and
nationalist assertion in the global context:

“The global backlash against the forces that have defined the first decade
and a half of the 21st century has taken on a nativist hue everywhere,” he
said. “In Europe and America, this has involved racist hostility to
immigrants and minorities (whether ethnically or religious defined). In
India, too, the ruling party rose
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through
demonizing Muslims and stigmatizing political and social dissenters. Since
such negative messaging requires a positive counterpart, nationalism has
filled the breach, as a majoritarian narrative has sought to subsume each
country’s diverse political tendencies into an artificial mandated unity
masquerading as patriotism.”
Social Media, Russian Hacks and Surveillance Capitalism
Rising social media and its disconnect with historically elite intellectual
institutions played a significant role in events this year.

The newfound prevalence of social media has been part and parcel of this
year’s momentous shift. As we reported in our 2016 Global Thought Leaders
analysis
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the
passionate political environment of 2016 appears to have marked the
inflection point when the influence of individuals sharing information with
their peers on social media surpassed that of established media platforms.

“This shift matches the inversion
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of
the old pyramid in which the authority and influence of elites in both
society and the media held the most sway over the majority of the
population,” we noted
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in
early December. “The separation of authoritative knowledge from influence
in a world where the social medium is not only the message, but the route
to power,” we continued, “is a menacing turn for society.“

The internet activist Wael Ghonim
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whose Facebook posts helped spark the Arab Spring in Egypt, concurs. While
social media did not create the passions behind hate speech and
intolerance, he said in a WorldPost interview in October, “there is no
doubt that the algorithmic structure of social media amplified and abetted
the turn to mobocracy. The internet has empowered the masses and introduced
a more decentralized medium for communicating with each other.” But,” he
asked, “is this so-called ‘liquid democracy
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without any form of meritocracy that sorts out the wheat from the chaff a
good thing for society?” For Ghonim, the spread of a post-fact discourse of
peer-driven mobocracy creates a new challenge. “While once social media was
seen as a liberating means to speak truth to power,” he said, “now the
issue is how to speak truth to social media.”

A related, and equally menacing, facet of the incoming era is the emergence
of a new “code war”
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that
reached fresh heights this year through Russian influence meddling in the
U.S. presidential election. Writing from Moscow, Fyodor Lukyanov
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reflected
that the U.S. is just now getting a taste of its own medicine after
intervening in other countries, including by trying to influence democratic
elections, for decades*. *

Zbigniew Brzezinski
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has
no doubts Russian President Vladimir Putin was directly involved in seeking
to influence the U.S. election since he is in absolute control of the
state, including the intelligence agencies. While acknowledging the U.S.
has meddled for years in other democracies, Brzezinski nonetheless
recognized that, “The new methods give activities of this sort a wider
scope than ever before. And thus they are indeed more influential and
effective than ever before. That is new and, of course, deeply troubling.”

Toomas Ilves
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the former president of Estonia, expects more cyberattacks from Russia as
elections loom in Europe in the coming year. “The conundrum that Europe
will face,” he wrote from Tallinn recently, “is whether or not to use
illiberal methods to safeguard the liberal state. … Because of cyberattacks
and fake news, we can already imagine the problem all democratic societies
will face in future elections: how to limit lies when they threaten
democracy.”

Oliver Stone
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who is preparing a new film based on his conversations with President
Putin, has his doubts about Russia’s involvement. But he, too, agreed that
we are now embarked on a “digital arms race” due in his view to the first
use by the U.S. of offensive digital weapons, like the Stuxnet virus that
disabled
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Iran’s
nuclear centrifuges. In a WorldPost interview in September that focused
mostly on his film “Snowden,” the Hollywood director worried as much about
the invasion of privacy by the private sector as by the state.

“Companies like Google profit enormously from data mining
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of
your personal searches, behavior and habits,” he said. “There is more money
in selling that data than in selling a product. It’s surveillance
capitalism. It really is a new kind of totalitarianism.”

AI, Algorithms and the Religious Imagination
AI continued to advance in 2016.

Another game-changing development in technology that continued to advance
rapidly in 2016 is artificial intelligence, or AI. In April, the Berggruen
Institute gathered top scientists and philosophers in Palo Alto to discuss
the promises and perils of AI. While many saw enormous benefits in the
short term, for example through the diagnostic capacity of big data for
health care, the longer term was more concerning. Bill Joy
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who helped develop the “Java Language Specification” software, warned, as
but one example, that sophisticated new gene editing technology has the
potential to “eliminate genetic diversity.”

*Sapiens* author Yuval Harari
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up this theme in an interview we published in May:

“The whole of science is converging on this master idea of processing data
in an algorithmic way, and this will cause the whole of economics and
politics to converge on the same idea,” he argued. “The whole of biology
since Darwin can be summarized in three words: ‘Organisms are algorithms.’
Simultaneously, computer scientists have been learning how to create better
and better electronic algorithms. Now these two waves … are merging around
this master concept of the algorithm, and their merger will create a
tsunami that will wash over everything in its way.”

In a reflection on the peril to the person from these developments,
neuroscientist Antonio Damasio
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vigorously
resisted the idea that being can be reduced to an algorithm. In a related
essay
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I pondered how scientific advances are resurrecting the religious
imagination. “The more scientific discovery reveals,” I wrote, “the more we
realize it can’t answer the great existential questions.”
Interdependence Works Both Ways
Host of the Olympics this year, Brazil was in the global spotlight for more
than just games.

2016 also demonstrated just how connected the world really is. We saw how
China’s economic slump is testing Brazil’s democracy. The deep recession
there due to slack demand
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by
China for the South American nation’s commodities exposed the political
cracks in the system, illustrating that the interdependence which giveth
can also take away. As the revered former president of Brazil, Fernando
Henrique Cardoso
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wrote in the wake of the now-ousted President Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment,
the cracks in the country’s democracy result from the same causes as in the
advanced nations.

“At the core of this crisis is the widening gap between people’s
aspirations and the capacity of political institutions to respond to the
demands of society,” he wrote. “It is one of the ironies of our age that
this deficit of trust in political institutions coexists with the rise of
citizens capable of making the choices that shape their lives and influence
the future of their societies.”

In another example of how what happens in one part of the world impacts
others far away, the recapture of Aleppo by Syrian President Bashar Assad
and his Russian allies in December after years of horrific civil war
coincided with the Christmastime attack in Berlin
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by
a suspect who was believed to be an asylum-seeker with ties to Islamist
terror groups. This tragic event likely tipped the scales decisively in
favor of anti-European Union and anti-immigrant political forces which have
been gaining momentum in reaction to the massive refugee influx, including
of Syrians fleeing the carnage at home. As a WorldPost editorial
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summarized
the situation:

“The European idea, which has been losing luster for years, looks to be the
latest and most consequential casualty of a world in turmoil that stretches
from the rubble of Aleppo to the World War II memorial ruins of the Kaiser
Wilhelm church, near where the Christmas market attack took place in
Berlin.”
*Where Hope Remains  *
While politics divided us in 2016, others reminded us of our shared
humanity.

The temptation to blame refugees for Europe’s woes must take in the broader
picture, Pope Francis told our outgoing Vatican correspondent Sébastien
Maillard
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in
an interview. He called on Europe to “rediscover its capacity to integrate”
plural cultures. But the Holy Father didn’t mince words about the dynamic
he sees behind terrorism and the refugee crisis. “In the face of Islamic
terrorism,” he told Maillard, who is also an editor of Le Croix, “it would
therefore be better to question ourselves about the way in [which] an
overly Western model of democracy has been exported to countries such as
Iraq, where a strong government previously existed. Or in Libya, where a
tribal structure exists. We cannot advance without taking these cultures
into account. As a Libyan said recently, ‘We used to have one Gaddafi, now
we have 50.’”

When politics divides instead of unites, walls off instead of embraces,
spiritual authorities like Pope Francis and artists or musicians like Yo-Yo
Ma step into the breach to sustain our humanity. As we wrote
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in
June, highlighting the release of the Silk Road Ensemble documentary, “The
Music of Strangers,”
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the
famed cellist is the pope’s spiritual cousin in this cause, sounding the
healing chord of fellowship instead of enmity. More than a musician, he,
too, is a guiding spirit who rises to the challenge of a world unraveling.

“To be able to put oneself in another’s shoes without prejudgment is an
essential skill,” Yo-Yo Ma once told
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The
WorldPost. “Empathy comes when you understand something deeply through arts
and literature and can thus make unexpected connections. These parallels
bring you closer to things that would otherwise seem far away. Empathy is
the ultimate quality that acknowledges our identity as members of one human
family.”

Finally, this year we celebrated Charles Taylor, who was awarded the 2016
Berggruen Prize for ideas that shape the world, as the “anti-xenophobe
philosopher
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In an overview, Berggruen Institute president, Craig Calhoun
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summarized the key works of the Canadian philosopher. And in a related
editorial we wrote
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about
how the man is an important figure for our time, and indeed, for this year:

“It is Taylor’s thinking on the recognition of irreducible diversity in an
interdependent world of plural identities ― and how societies can cope with
this reality ― that gives him urgency in this era of Trump, Brexit, the
burkini ban and the rise of the anti-immigrant right in Europe.”
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