I like how someone put it when they said that Trump, MAGA, the movement, a s people in it are all the wrong answer to the right question.
Post Cold War is an unmoored ship that has been damaged in storms of economic shocks, 9/11, wars that didn’t solve anything, debt, general migration from the global south, and a pandemic.Sounds a lot like late 19th / early 20th century IMO More of that later
We have issues that we have we have left unattended that have festered and metastasized. We don’t have a tethering enemy outside of China really, but we do business with them. It’s not the clean USSR foil. We have lingering inequality and a large number of new people coming into the county. That’s always been a recipe for turmoil.
If it was just that , I think we’d be fine.
However, $ being speech, the tsunami of AI, disinformation WITH AI, and the celebration of stupid is what scares me to death.
The destabilizing force of AI added to the inequality and mass movements of peoples really has me worried we’re a political upheaval not seen since the fall of the old European empires in the late 1880’s - 1910’s/20’s and the rise of nation states / revolutions / new economic and political orders.
Good thing I have plenty of tequila to sip on for now.