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I think after the collapse of any social system the hindsight would appear to show nothing but discontent. If the U.S. underwent the same social reordering tha

I think after the collapse of any social system the hindsight would appear to show nothing but discontent. If the U.S. underwent the same social reordering that the former USSR did there would be a cultural tsunami of prescient signs that went tragically undiscussed due to the obviously blind and limiting social order.

jerf 10y ago
Like, say, massive debt spikes both personal and federal, near-decade-long economic malaise, massive discontent with the political class resulting in the nomination of a total outsider by one party and the other party having a massive fight between the outsider and the establishment candidate that still isn't settled, massive discontent with the press, social unrest about race and inequality issues, significant rises in drug abuse and suicide in certain groups, and a wildly whiplashing set of social norms changing so fast even those who nominally agree with them can have a hard time keeping up with the official social norms for this week (which is very nearly not an exaggeration)?