It is fascinating how much the dominant societal narratives have changed in the last five years. It is not that we understand the world now better than before. It is incomprehensible in totally novel ways.
Here is a symptom, some of the concepts that were irrelevant or inexistent to the mainstream before 2010: deep learning, fake news, cultural appropriation, blockchain, rape culture, sjw, transphobia, Wikileaks, BLM, alt right
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Most of these sound pretty ephemeral and faddish to me - not in that they're irrelevant, but in that they're the sort of concerns that move in & out of mainstream discourse all the time, rather than major paradigm shifts of any kind. Also, here's "rape culture" up to 2008:pic.twitter.com/EHnkdXDdJt
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I just used Google trends:https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rape%20culture …
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