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It feels like we’re on the brink of something (self.chat)
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Covid, WFH, Musk, The fall of Twitter, Netflix plateau, Reddit Blackout, Crippling interest rates, Trump, Decentralisation, Tech Antitrust, Ukraine

Adding in Edit: AI, Climate Crisis, Nazis, Fascism, Democratic backsliding, automation, mass unemployment, rising homelessness, wild fires

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We sure do live in interesting times

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[–] furrowsofar 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I read a book maybe 20 years ago called the 4th Turning. This kind of feels like it and it is when the book said it was going to be.

[–] SubArcticTundra 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What did it predict?

[–] worfamerryman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I want to know to. Don’t leave us hanging.

It like that one book I read that predicted

[–] furrowsofar 2 points 1 year ago

The premise of the book is that US history goes through more or less periodic phases and there are common generational changes. The book I think predicted the start of the 4th turning about now. Turnings generally start with weakening goverments and some crisis and often often wars. This is all from memory.. Someone else may know more.

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