Taylorism is a refinement and formalization of industrial economic thinking, which dates back explicitly to at least 100 years earlier and was incubating implicitly centuries before that. It was the discovery of coal as cheap energy which drove the industrial revolution, but already before that the harnessing of wind and water and wood foretold the future: external physical forces can be harnessed to do the work of humans and their domestic animals. In the 18th century came practical steam engines, mostly wood-fired, and then in the 19th century came large-scale coal mining and steel production, followed by petroleum development in the late 19th century. And here we are.
When Cervantes sent his hero Don Quixote out to tilt at windmills in the early 1600s, it was not because Don Quixote mistook them for monsters, but rather because he properly recognized them as monsters who would replace normal human relations with artificial mechanical relations. And Cervantes was correct.
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In the intro to the first article, you say,
> Convicted in 2010 of inciting hatred against Muslims, after referring to Muslim migrants to France as “thugs” and “colonisers”, Camus is most notorious for coining the phrase “The Great Replacement”. The term has since taken on a life of its own ... today the phrase “Great Replacement” is more or less synonyous with “far right conspiracy theory”.
This is a shining example of what we call "Democrat Rule #1" in America: any bad thing they accuse conservatives of doing, or of wanting to do, they are already doing that thing themselves.
Camus may have come up with the term "the great replacement" in 2010, but the idea was hardly a new one. It goes back at least as far as the highly influential 2004 book "The Emerging Democratic Majority," in which authors John Judis and Ruy Teixeira lay out their thesis that demographic replacement of white, conservative Americans by immigrants who do not share their values 1) is happening, 2) will inevitably accelerate, and 3) is awesome. It only became a bad thing and a "conspiracy theory" when conservatives started to notice and to disagree with point 3 of the above.
At this point, just as they did with the word "woke," the Left abandoned it and started gaslighting everyone at full strength, pretending it was something sinister that the Right came up with that they never had anything to do with.
Mary writes that Camus points out that there is always an origin to the origin and the origin of replacism is Taylorist manangement theory. The ur-text is The Principles of Scientific Management by Taylor from 1911. So, as Mary reveals, replacisim predates WW1. Has technology globalized the homogenization process?
Taylorism is a refinement and formalization of industrial economic thinking, which dates back explicitly to at least 100 years earlier and was incubating implicitly centuries before that. It was the discovery of coal as cheap energy which drove the industrial revolution, but already before the harnessing of wind and water foretold the future.
When Cervantes sent his hero Don Quixote out to tilt at windmills in the early 1600s, it was not because Don Quixote mistook them for monsters, but rather because he properly recognized them as monsters who replaced normal human relations with artificial mechanical relations.
Taylorism is a refinement and formalization of industrial economic thinking, which dates back explicitly to at least 100 years earlier and was incubating implicitly centuries before that. It was the discovery of coal as cheap energy which drove the industrial revolution, but already before that the harnessing of wind and water and wood foretold the future: external physical forces can be harnessed to do the work of humans and their domestic animals. In the 18th century came practical steam engines, mostly wood-fired, and then in the 19th century came large-scale coal mining and steel production, followed by petroleum development in the late 19th century. And here we are.
When Cervantes sent his hero Don Quixote out to tilt at windmills in the early 1600s, it was not because Don Quixote mistook them for monsters, but rather because he properly recognized them as monsters who would replace normal human relations with artificial mechanical relations. And Cervantes was correct.
Part 3 is still paywalled.
The articles are unlocked, but the comments on the articles remain paywalled, so the only place to post them is here.
In the intro to the first article, you say,
> Convicted in 2010 of inciting hatred against Muslims, after referring to Muslim migrants to France as “thugs” and “colonisers”, Camus is most notorious for coining the phrase “The Great Replacement”. The term has since taken on a life of its own ... today the phrase “Great Replacement” is more or less synonyous with “far right conspiracy theory”.
This is a shining example of what we call "Democrat Rule #1" in America: any bad thing they accuse conservatives of doing, or of wanting to do, they are already doing that thing themselves.
Camus may have come up with the term "the great replacement" in 2010, but the idea was hardly a new one. It goes back at least as far as the highly influential 2004 book "The Emerging Democratic Majority," in which authors John Judis and Ruy Teixeira lay out their thesis that demographic replacement of white, conservative Americans by immigrants who do not share their values 1) is happening, 2) will inevitably accelerate, and 3) is awesome. It only became a bad thing and a "conspiracy theory" when conservatives started to notice and to disagree with point 3 of the above.
At this point, just as they did with the word "woke," the Left abandoned it and started gaslighting everyone at full strength, pretending it was something sinister that the Right came up with that they never had anything to do with.
Mary writes that Camus points out that there is always an origin to the origin and the origin of replacism is Taylorist manangement theory. The ur-text is The Principles of Scientific Management by Taylor from 1911. So, as Mary reveals, replacisim predates WW1. Has technology globalized the homogenization process?
Taylorism is a refinement and formalization of industrial economic thinking, which dates back explicitly to at least 100 years earlier and was incubating implicitly centuries before that. It was the discovery of coal as cheap energy which drove the industrial revolution, but already before the harnessing of wind and water foretold the future.
When Cervantes sent his hero Don Quixote out to tilt at windmills in the early 1600s, it was not because Don Quixote mistook them for monsters, but rather because he properly recognized them as monsters who replaced normal human relations with artificial mechanical relations.