Nonilex<p>Da says modern forms of govt rose w/the Industrial Revolution.Now <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> is changing, & the govt may too.<br>He says some friends compare it to China's Cultural Revolution<br>…1966–1976, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung led an assault on suspected capitalist sympathizers,closing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universities</span></a>, sending <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/professors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>professors</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> to work in fields, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/purging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>purging</span></a> govt workers & encouraging supporters to harass or attack their elders. It was "the most chaotic period of modern <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>," the professor says.</p>