Post-Modern points of view joined with the end of the Cold War enabled society to easily slide into a radical subjectivism zeitgeist. The irrational exuberance of Wall Street noted by Alan Greenspan was a reflection of the age of the end of accountability when the incredible lightness of being successfully eschewing negativism. Mass political action requires work, and that presents an opportunity cost to those preferring the pursuit of wealth-for-oneself.
There are many names for the philosophical viewpoints that followed insights by William James and Charles Dewey’s ideas about pragmatism and subjectivism including the nature of truth, or more correctly, its meaning. Some of those ideas may have been in part inspired by analysis of actual political and empirical relations involving the Catholic Church in Europe when it was a great land owner and a reinforcement for aristocracy. A political revolution required religious revolution or reformation as well for Democracy to arise. One sees that paradigm with the Dewitt Brothers and William of Orange in Dutch history, and of course in the Smalcaldian war of Germany and the Hapsburg Empire.
Popular deconstruction of established hierarchies of royalty, wealth and political power stimulated the rise of deconstruction as a formal philosophical school in the 20th century. The Heisenberg interpretation of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s generation of his two theories of special and General Relativity moved intellectuals closer toward an interpretation of radical subjectivism. That viewpoint reinforces personal egoism as a psychological orientation. In mass politics movements return to class identity politics for an adjustment of a normative political state of majority empowerment separate from economic productivity. Within a post-modern political worldview economics are themselves and externality and political power can move wealth to the majority without mass effects of consequence; public debt and nuclear annihilation are simply no sequiturs that cannot exist if ignored.
The U.S. Democratic Party can therefore have an agenda of concatenated personal egoism founded in YCYOR (You Create Your Own Reality) misinterpretation of quantum mechanics and in some cases supported with ideas about Multiverse Theory and simultaneous determinism and indeterminism as self travels through an infinite succession of manifested physical configurations switched to or encountered in relation to subjective thought.
Several philosophical paradigms reinforced radical subjectivism, yet only a few were needed to find that ignoring pressing political issues was an acceptable way to address concerns like public debt, environmental degradation, mass species extinction, porous borders flooded by illegal migrants and the consequences of treating the Ukraine war with Russia as a poker game with never ending raises. That conflict is regarded as simply a winning proposition that can only win the pot of Ukraine and shrinking of Russia territorially and politically. Losing with escalation to nuclear annihilation if between just 100 to 400 nuclear weapons are detonated by all parties isn't thought of as a real possibility. And thought is all that matters for subjectivists.
The down side of building up Artificial Intelligence so rapidly and pervasively that a significant percent of fresh water is used to cool the data center computers that host it, is not even regarded by many as a potential problem. It occurs within the basic paradigm of quantum mysticism that renders entanglement in the Higgs field as decohered particle pairs locked into a phenomenal Universe that is contingent as reason enough to disregard the significance of any macro-political issues that are pressing and as Al Gore once said- inconvenient truths.
In the science fiction story; “I have no Mouth and I Must Scream’, the author Harlan Ellison warned of the dangers of an omnipotent (relatively speaking) A.I. that eliminates humanity except for five people that it kept alive to torture forever because it hates humanity for creating it theoretically. Some analysts have regarded the story from a humanist perspective; in relation to how it treats humanity, yet the AI would still exist in a Universe with aliens, AI and the one true God out there one would think, and the paradigm of the AI on Earth would be just one sad phenomena. It is a paradox that humanists that have said since Darwin, Galileo and Hubble that man is not at the center of the Universe and is instead, living on an insignificant speck somewhere in an expanding space-time bubble, that they place themselves and humanity at the center of being and importance and disregard objective facts of relativity whereat one place is as centralized as any other, and only in relation to others can a relative center be said to contingently and temporally exist. A YCYOR viewpoint is at the very center of the Universe because one’s thought creates it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6oFbsA_1Q8&t=4213s
One’s own thought creates reality only in the sense that thought generally is the pilot of one’s body movement and one modifies reality by changing locations or elements experienced in it rather than creating all of reality with mind as Billy Mummy seemed to be able to accomplish in one episode of the Twilight Zone ("It's a Good Life" (Season 3, Episode 8, aired in 1961). Human consciousness probably does not collapse the wave-function to make reality exist. The viewpoint is said to be a misunderstanding of quantum mechanics and the observer effect.
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