Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
Enjoying this with a healthy dose of 😬 I think the East India Company is a better analogy for our present than the Mongols. It didn't conquer with banners and cavalry, but acquired nations like distressed assets—strip-mining their value, installing puppet executives and selling it for parts That's the Silicon Valley neoreactionary dream: not Genghis burning libraries, but something sleeker. The Mongols ride in, raze your capital, and take your daughters. The East India Company sets up an app store where you pay them for the privilege of keeping your own daughters. The MAGA hijack isn't conquest but franchising governance. Why burn Washington when you can buy it, running it like customer support? Mongols kill kings; the Company keeps them as mascots while real power shifts to directors controlling who gets paid and banned.
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Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
EIC rolled in as traders, took over as rulers. Tech-aligned MAGA similar playbook. From regulated firms to shadow government, stripping institutions for parts. Keep the old structures, gut the independence. Mughals got figurehead status; DC gets lip service while real power shifts to private networks. Public investment? Only if it pays. EIC ran monopolies, siphoned India’s wealth. Tech-MAGA rigs privatization, gaming taxes, locking in control. Governance isn’t service—it’s asset management. Both models view governance primarily through a profit lens, treating citizens as resources to manage rather than constituents to serve, and both leverage accumulated capital to influence or replace traditional authority structures
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