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Interregnum: Age of Monsters (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Look back in 80-year blocks to 1946, 1866, and 1786, etc and you’ll see a repeated pattern where the established order collapses and the monsters fill the vacuum.

What makes today different is that tech has created a post-truth environment that dissolves shared reality, making it much harder to kill the monsters and build a consensus than it was previously.