The World Is Spinning Out Of Control...Same as It Ever Was
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The World Is Spinning Out Of Control...Same as It Ever Was
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
Kyle Chayka • The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era
change. Overload speaks to our dazed mental reaction. Then there are the trivially obvious flood
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
was left in a state
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
This week is probably the closest we’ve ever gotten in my lifetime to the brink of nuclear-powered World War 3, yet people seem strangely indifferent to the developments. I share in this under-reaction. Shouldn’t we, I don’t know, have a stronger collective reaction?
Venkatesh Rao • Ark Head
idea of an information explosion or overload goes back to the 1960s, which seems poignant in retrospect. These concerns expressed a new