You know that trope in simulated-world movies where character gets to the edge of the simulation and sees blankness or a computer grid? The future feels like that right now. Especially if you have a strong sense of history. I suspect people bored by in history don’t feel this.
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I don't mean the pandemic. I mean an epochal boundary. In this case, the pandemic is just an accelerant. Indeed, one reason this seems unfamiliar is that previous pandemics (a) weren't coinciding with an ongoing epochal shift, or (b) happened at a time when the shift itself...
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...was moving too slowly to be widely and clearly seen.
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The good news is that this pandemic is not The Big One. The bad news is that The Big One may not be far off. The only hope is a revolution in rapid vaccine development, which may be imminent.
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