Prompted by all the commencements making the news.

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        Social media, influencers, disinformation, financial crisis, surveillance state, climate change, erosion of civility, eorsion of trusted institutions, growing monopolies, citizens united, rules based order collapse, housing crisis, wealth inequality, opioid crisis, loneliness epidemic, COVID etc. etc.

        • butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus
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          Yeah I would agree, but idk how much this is an American perspective for me. Living through the fall of the imperium makes for stiff competition. For the people disagreeing, I can’t help but feel that people are hyperfixating in the advent of new technology rather than its omnipresence and application. But hard to argue with the “end of the cold war” argument tbf.