Big day today. We’ve got military parades. Protests. War. Political assassinations. It feels like a lot. But there’s one quote that’s been floating around the internet lately that both haunts me and comforts me: nothing ever happens. We live in an anti-climactic world.
Of course in a normal world, things like a military parade and war and protests and political assassinations would be pretty big climaxes in and of themselves. But those days are long gone.
And I mean LONG gone.
There could be a nuclear holocaust tomorrow AND an alien invasion and we’d still go to work on Monday and think “goddamn. Things are crazy huh?”. But that won’t stop you from clocking in and riding the clock by sitting on the toilet for five hours. People are tired and worn out.
I certainly am.
But I don’t think we live in unprecedented times. The times are always precedented. If you think that this is the first time humanity has ever faced a societal collapse then I’ve got some bad news for you buddy. Eric Cline might want to have a few words with you.
The Bronze Age collapse is one that immediately comes to mind; maybe the fall of the Roman Empire which led Europe from antiquity into the Medieval period. But we’ve seen this shit before. The latest iteration is the Digital Age collapse.
But the good news is that with the end of every epoch comes a new paradigm shift. The bad news is that we probably won’t live to see it.
Enjoy your weekend 🙂
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