> What do you think the whole end state of this whole saga? Honestly, I don’t know. But I don’t think reform and collapse are the only two outcomes. A lot of

> What do you think the whole end state of this whole saga? Honestly, I don’t know. But I don’t think reform and collapse are the only two outcomes. A lot of countries hobble along and simply live with their corruption for long periods of time. I tell you what my answer isn’t. It’s not some cliched breathy end-times prediction where I make vague comparisons to the fall of Rome while parroting the same reasons every other ding dong has been parroting long before I was born (decline in morality, government spending, rising inflation) I don’t know what’s going to happen and the people who have consistently predicted the wrong outcome for the last 5 decades are just as clueless. Let’s start from a place of humility and tell ourselves we don’t know. Most of us are so profoundly ignorant on the subject we’d do a lot better asking BASIC questions that reveal our ignorance rather than bloviating inane predictions. I have so many basic questions that I’d love to ask much smarter people. Questions like: * Are there inflection points in history we should study where people brought about meaning reform without huge social volatility? * How can societies depolarize themselves? How has it happened throughout history? * What questions should I be asking? (This one should be asked every day)