1/ I've followed @Chris_arnade for a while, read his book, thought a lot about how the low end of the ladder is losing its sense of community and place...but only recently have I started realizing that my own sense of rootlessness and lack of community isn't just me & my oddness https://twitter.com/Chris_arnade/status/1314923444816031745 …
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3/ I continue to think that our society is in a once-every-500-years upheaval, comparable to, say print-press/end-of-feudalism/establishment-of-Westphalian-system ~ 1500 AD, or collapse of Rome ~ 500 AD
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4/ ...and that once we get through it the new world will be better But it's simultaneously perfectly reasonable and yet still surprising that these problems aren't limited to one person/class/country. I dunno. No huge overarching thesis here, I guess, but am connecting >
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5/ two other theses: - 500 year Kondratiev wave / "Generations" cycle - ennui / rootlessness / loss of sense of place
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