I am sorry, iam, I could not find a reference, but other items popped up meanwhile, namely an interesting CBS report on an article I may mention in passing with the title, â Narrowing the GAP betweenhuman and artificial intelligence.
Finding myself as well, testedin regard to referents, and I am aware of the situation, of what MS Rand must have felt herself, kind of like having to express a rationale on capitalism, at a time, when after the red scare, following WW1&2, which were entangled with the ideological confusion of the inter lasting Great Depression; casting a huge albeit largely forgotten shadow of large proportions at the time.
Not without standing the fact that she was a Russian, turning Marx upside down, so as to cast the shadow in terms of the language of the light of day.
It is within these perimeters. that simulation coincided neatly with the message of the media, that also being the message, here, amolifying Your observation into the semantic games I referred in the above.
Here, the either-or of the prologue shifts into the center, the need, to reconcile in an abstract basis, the ore verbial impressions of an uncommon familiarity with how things in the real world of politics play out.
These impressions are catered to, in case of a revision, in Randâs case, the very tumultuous and joyful days following VE Day.
There was caution in the air, by ultra conservatives, who felt a slide back into some kind of infamy, whether be it from reorganized National Socialist cells in Germany, or the re-emergence of the Marxian model to Worldwide Socialism.
The common sense approach which became the torchlight for the next few decades following, reversed both the politics and the social psychology of a reversed Marxism, where social gains can be attained, far beyond what a Socialist Marxism could offer. These were the arenas of real values in the 59âs, where social realism competed with abstract expressionism.
The competition achieved goals. Whether these goals were products of real reality, as people envisioned them when high times prevailed for those few decades, amounted to products of manufactured values for the most part, based not on uniformity, but differences in the West, and especially in the US.
Differences, implied self determination, based on competitive efforts in the West, and abstracted differences were sold as subjective wants were catered to, mostly out of Madison Ave. and Hollywood dream factories.
Social realism could not afford sharp differentiations, they were logically precluded from large jumps within a collective of alums within socially tested derivatives. They were derived by a historicism implicit in their architecture, that held strong for about two generations after the world wars. Nowadays, decay has set in, in spite of considerable efforts for reconstruction and maintenance of relics of the past.
That MS Rand had to patently import these mostly conceptual forms of architecture, made little impression on those for whom architecture was merely a figure of speech, implicit in the import of the various philosophies of language, that seemed to work on some kind of subliminal level, just like advertising.
Looking back, Carl Popperâs âs Open Society and Its Enemiesâ, seem more convincing as a conceptual tool to define a narrative, more inclined to form more than mere psychologisms as figures of soeach, then Atlas Shrugged.
But we have as a society have come full circle, now, with Terrorism opted as the new frontier of a new opening for a viable enemy, and basic values have become circumscribed within thus orborous of a closing circle. The center is not holding , that which is artificial can not be simply put into an either-or cast,
and it is no longer a question of whether it is real, or a simulation, but of what level of complexity such simulation consists of.
What are the goals or the motives of an artificial machine, for instance? Can Trump be really nothing else but a machine like entity, grasping at nothing but on winning? Winning for its own sake, to substitute for art for its own sake ?
Or the art of salesmanship may someday consist in installations of program trading on ever descending levels of demonstration ? Not as far fetched as it sounds, and who would care if such is not âreal artâ?
Defensive psychology is a prelude to the breakdown of bracketing formal arrangements, as the complexity of technological advances are made in modern warfare. Boundaries melt into each other, and as dissolution of the spheres of relevance and resemblance create new spheres of ambiguous and anomalous power structures, the change, according to the extent of their merger through relevance.
Changes can be slow or abrupt, and that is the result of a fortuiys application by opportune application of power motives. These usually are very carefully crafted, and made to appear as consequences of chance, for public consumption.
How do such things imply the same kind of dynamic in Trumpism , is uncertain, but that the correspondence with larger, historic movements are no doubt weighed in carefully. Therefore, without commenting on a Trumpism, per se, would hazard a very strong political channel which drives its course,
and not at all nearly as described so voulnerable to attacks.
That itâs a prescription, or is based on a prescription of a major reversal of values, there is little doubt, whereupon future historians may be able to comment, on how important a factor did A1 played on its progressive course.