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In retrospect, the evidence pointing to the 2016 election as the first regeneracy of the Millennial Crisis seems unmistakable.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
It is about the push and pull between the past and the future. Since the sixteenth century, technological and economic change have produced enormous advances but also massive disruption. The disruption and the unequal distribution of its benefits stoke huge anxiety. Change and anxiety, in turn, leads to an identity revolution, with people searching
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# Why the Past Ten Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Author: Jonathan Haidt
URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/
Publication Date: 11 Apr 2022
- There is a direction to history and it is toward cooperation at larger scales. We see this trend in biological evolution, in the s
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Mario Gabriele • Generalist Capital: In Search of Epics | The Generalist
These three forces—technology, economics, identity—together almost always generate backlash that produces a new politics. Human beings can absorb only so much change so fast. The old politics, inherited from a prior era, often cannot keep pace. Politicians scramble to adjust, modifying their views and finding new coalitions. The result is reform an
... See moreFareed Zakaria • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
Culture and Consumption II. In the essay titled “When Cars Could Fly,”