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Europe, as noted earlier, has in a short span of time gone from being the most predictable and stable region—one where history seemed to have truly ended (as suggested in an influential essay published in 1989 by the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama)—to something dramatically different. Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firml

Richard Haass • The World

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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

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Therefore, as in all social fears, there will be an increasing belief in the coming decade that the federal government is in the hands of conspirators.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

In other words, there seems to have been a profound contradiction between the political imperative of establishing capitalism as the only possible way to manage anything, and capitalism’s own unacknowledged need to limit its future horizons, lest speculation, predictably, go haywire. Once it did, and the whole machine imploded, we were left in the

David Graeber • Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

I basically think everyone’s gone mad because there is no longer any intersubjective narrative for effecting meaningful change in the system that isn’t predetermined by the logic of capital, so we’re left with absurdist thrashing on all sides

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Societies can collapse. These texts problematize the idea that conditions of life are inexorably improving; according to Greer, we are moving to a condition that is After Progress (2015). These texts point to the possibility of systemic reversal, some deploying the language of austerity, and show that this is directly affecting people's lives and l

John Urry • What is the Future?

Pacing is impossible under these incentives. The logic of venture capital demands exponential returns. The logic of platforms demands user retention. The logic of empire demands strategic advantage. None of these logics are compatible with precaution.