Predicting the future is easier if it’s a backsliding future. - Roe vs Wade will fall - Ozone hole will reopen - Every infectious disease beaten back by vaccines will return - Every mediocre show/movie will be rebooted - Rules-based international order will be dismantled
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All happening already.
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What happens after the end of history? We rewind and rerun. Why are we surprised? The Great Weirding (2016-20) becomes the Great Backslide (2020-2070) becomes the Great Refactoring (2070-2370). Three stages of a Dark Age. Of 350 years.
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And that’s assuming I finish inventing psychohistory. If not the 350 years becomes 3500. Y’all better give me money to get this done.
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The great joke of the last 100 years of technology is that it simultaneously sped up change and kept stupid old fuckers who can’t deal with said change alive and in power.
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