lmao. This is why @Tinkzorg is one of my most favorite recent follows
It's no coincidence that Jurassic Park as explained here "got it," because Michael Crichton "got it," that's how Crichton coined the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, the original "fake news"
tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/wel…
It's no coincidence that Jurassic Park as explained here "got it," because Michael Crichton "got it," that's how Crichton coined the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, the original "fake news"
tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/10/20/wel…
One of the simplest ways of understanding American politics, and by extension all Western politics, is that you have a once-stable political system (post-WW2 order) increasingly pushed toward a chaotic instability
Hence Brexit, Trump, Italy, Hungary, even Bolsonaro, etc
Hence Brexit, Trump, Italy, Hungary, even Bolsonaro, etc
The ruling order—described in this piece as the guy automating the electric fences to keep the dinosaurs out—is increasingly unable to sustain those once-electric fences
It won't allow a "Trump" etc to repair them, either. That's why I think we're inevitably headed towards chaos
It won't allow a "Trump" etc to repair them, either. That's why I think we're inevitably headed towards chaos
This doesn't necessarily mean TRUE chaos, civil war or whatever (also addressed here, Tinks really is great). But rather an inevitable reordering of the decaying political order that can no longer maintain itself
As in, a phase shift, unpredictable until it's already over
As in, a phase shift, unpredictable until it's already over
Trying to predict exactly where the chaos will settle on a new point of stability is literally ridiculous, but I do think we're pretty much at the end of liberalism. One way or another, it's going to recohere on something past it. It's run its course, grasping for something new
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