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>I'm not a historian but it strikes me as very strange and somewhat new to the world. It’s similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the opioid crisis
by knuththetruth 8y ago
>I'm not a historian but it strikes me as very strange and somewhat new to the world.
It’s similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union, with the opioid crisis taking the place of people drinking themselves to death.
You also see the same high-levels of corruption, especially in tech, where former Obama officials are given high-level jobs at the big firms or gig unicorns. Hell, even Obama himself just got a Netflix deal.
- vertexFarm 8y agoPeople are starting to see a lot of parallels between the US today and the Soviet Union when it fell. I recommend the book Nothing is True and Everything is Possible to get a good feel for that heady, depressing-yet-exciting fall of Rome zeitgeist.