the period I've started to draw mental comparisons to is roughly 1848 and 1918, in that they saw *radical* upheaval of the status quo order as a result of massive crises
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(unfortunately in those periods we had examples of serious alternative in the forms of liberal democracies in places like the US. With our current time period we don't really have any working examples of something beyond liberalism that isn't autocratic)
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Landian, Kurzweilian, Kaczynskian, Eschatological, Deleuzian, Cioranesque take
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The way out is through. We can go faster than even those preparing for increased speed are capable of matching.pic.twitter.com/yyUKn21QDJ
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One of the four beasts, saying, “come to c”. And I sped up to c, and I saw, and behold, the past caught up to me.
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