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