I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia.
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I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
Just look at how much of Russia's foreign policy is basically "damn, remember when we were the USSR?"
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I swear to God, I feel like the global rise in far-right parties has less to do with any kind of global cabal, and more to do with the fact that Boomers everywhere are powered by nostalgia. Seems like Boomers everywhere will stop at nothing to bring back the world of their parents that they never experienced.
Just look at how much of Russia's foreign policy is basically "damn, remember when we were the USSR?"
Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. "Future shock" was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn't/wouldn't deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
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Read a book called 'Future Shock" by Alvin Toffler. He wrote it around 1970 and pretty much predicted everything that happened since. "Future shock" was his term for the madness that people would embrace when they realized they couldn't/wouldn't deal with the changes that the shift from the Industrial Age to the Digital Era would bring.
I'm reading it right now. I still can't believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
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I'm reading it right now. I still can't believe that a 55-year-old book could still describe aspects of my life to such accuracy!
It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner's book, "Stand On Zanzibar' won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It's set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
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It gets even worse.
He inspired a science fiction writer named John Brunner. Brunner's book, "Stand On Zanzibar' won the 1969 Hugo award for best science fiction novel. It's set in the early 21st Century and features such crazy ideas as middle class adults needing room mates to make the rent, wide spread homelessness, AI, endless post-colonial wars, the internet, and music videos.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/stand-on-zanzibar-john-brunner/7252770?ean=9781250781222&next=t
Now I'll have to read that too. Thanks!
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Now I'll have to read that too. Thanks!
One more thing...
