Japan proves so many assumptions wrong - a country stuck with the macroeconomic conditions of the 80s was not able to sustain the social mores of that era. Material ossification due to faltering capital acceleration with technological bottlenecks leads to demographic fatigue. Cultural optimism in our lifetimes is downstream from promethean techno-solutionism - our parents and grandparents were assured of the promise that technocratic solutions deployed by the State would bring untold prosperity and progress and rightly so. What have current generations seen apart from enshittification, intel agency manipulation, algorithmic capture by cog war forces, institutional collapse and the end of modernity? There is nothing to sustain cultural optimism because capital is cannibalising itself. And in the West, this is the certainly the case this has created huge techno-bottlenecks where breakthroughs in the theoretical sciences are not delivering any substantive real world benefits. Crypto is a scam, genomics failed, CRISPR didn't democratise medicine - all failed gods. Which is why China is so unique. The EV revolution is a clear example where capital and techno-bottles were marshalled ruthlessly by the State with the Five Year Plans delivering results time after time. The West has abandoned cosmotechnic mastery - something that to be very honest it innovated and reached first at the peak of American Primacy for gheys like Altman and Thiel to push shit algorithms, institutional/regulatory capture and security state expansion. An Islamicate Cosmotechnics would have us believe that technology is the means to realise our Adamic potential in the Iqballian sense - inevitably the line between blood and silicon will blur, as we move forward to fulfil this promise and potential

“The need to become completely autonomous and aware of all the consequences of everything we're doing before the consequences occur is where we're heading." Marshall McLuhan ‘The Future of Man in the Electric Age’ 1965

The Saudi-US deal is much more beneficial for the Americans, if one reads through the details. Congress alone has the power to lift sanctions and Padishah's rule by Executive Order at some point will meet with resistance. There is little about an understanding around Saudi nuclear ambitions and also again little to suggest an ironclad security arrangement with GAE. The danger here is that lifetime Indians, the Saudis are paying way above market value for Western tech Most of the deals are around hyperfinancial commercialism and AI - the outcome of these deals will need to be tested against a longer timeframe of a decade or two so no immediate transformation there. The exuberance of the Saudi-US engagement seems disproportionate likely for cogwar purposes for both MBS and Padishah who need good news. Unless Padishah's EO decisions translate into the machinery of the Deep State, the jury is still out on what has actually been agreed upon MBS is in danger of greater financial recklessness - his reign so far has shown someone not in control of the numbers, too obsessed with flashy megaprojects that end up collpasing - Saudi's budgetary problems will not be helped by pumping money into a dying Empire Where MBS thrives is the showman diplomacy of walking the China-GAE tightrope which few others can skilfully manage - his talents should be focused more on soft power projection. Someone needs to take away the purse strings from him though before he bankrupts the petro-casino Already the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund (PIF) is in dire straits recently announcing a series of difficult decisions around hiring, restructuring and "optimization" which is euphemistic corporate-speak for things are burning up in flames