Buckle your seat belts. From the fermented mind of Venkatesh Rao comes the prognosis that the colossally disruptive neoliberal era (1990-2015) is now being bookended by the equally dysfunctional age of authoritarianism, until 2040. Venk’s hypotheses can by found here:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/05/27/weirding-diary-8/
Part of an 8 part series titled the Great Weirding, for sure some insights ready to blow your mind.
"Bring Back the Berlin Wall ... Bring Back Stalin and St. Paul..." The Future, L.C.
The public institutions that support great nation states, societies… it’s called civilization for a reason people, because we treat everyone in our civic spheres with civility, ideally. All this is under attack; “Lined up right behind education (the assault on education), there is a whole list of vulnerable institutions; health care, news media, social security, the military(?), and the legal system. In the US, they are all precariously balanced on the watershed between public collapse and private flight.”
