Once an era starts feeling like complete “history” you start to see distinctions among things that:
a) were transient and internal to era
b) integrated in a way individual steps don’t matter
c) “passed through” era as open items
d) started but didn’t end
d) got laid to rest
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Picking up from this earlier thread on a periodic action that’s getting viscerally clear to me
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I think recent eras are:
1964-1979: long 60s
1980-1993: long 80s
1994-2007: long 90s
2008-2021: long Weirding
2022-2033: long 20s
Enough time has passed that long 80s, long 90s feel like “history” to me now. Don’t remember long 60s since I was only 5 when it ended.
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In my head, I have a crackpot engineering model taking shape 🤣
a) zero-mean noise
b) potential field
c) pass band signal from earlier
d) history sources
e) history sinks
Sort of groping for “history” as a hyperobject here. Like a self-reconfiguring electric circuit.
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Examples for just completed 2008-21 Long Weirding era
a) zombie/vampire movies
b) AI and climate
c) Culture war (orig: long-60s Nixonland)
d) crypto
e) Cold War (rip Gorbachev)
e is debatable: for eg I think Putin’s new agenda is a throwback to Tsarist era, not Cold War contd.
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