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Maurice
@maurice
Maybe I'm seeing it too one-sidedly, but I have the feeling that the troublemakers, the non-conformists and the rebels are being celebrated a bit more at the moment. (Trump, Elon, RFK, Thiel, Balaji,...) I have the feeling that we are in a post-institutional phase. This has positive and negative effects. People are starting to question everything, which in my opinion is a good thing. On the whole, I am a friend of disruption/challenging the status quo and not a friend of the terms "settled science" or "the end of history" But I also see the danger that science and the "experts" will be fundamentally rejected and we will swing into the other extreme.
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Royal
@royalaid.eth
We can ever escape institutionalism, its a byproduct of society organizing and the economy functioning based on specialization. I also agree we aren't at the end of history and it is hubris to claim as much, but I understand when that claim was made many back to back amazing things had happened. I think what's really happening right now is that we are just seeing a bit of a reshuffling of the existing world order, nearly every democracy voted out incumbents which mostly seems to be a side effect of economic unrest and a new set of people understanding the playbooks that worked during previous economic hardships, just with updated tools and messaging (weimar germany, great depression US). But I think we go too in assuming that the rebels are any different from what we have seen in the past, there are truly very few new ideas under the sun.
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John Hoang
@jhoang
How I see it is that chaos creates the space for the new.
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
couldn't articulate better. we'll see
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Orgamaximus
@orgamaximus
The problem is the current non-conformist culture promotes do your own research and not do your own experiments. This leads to deciding truth based on marketing and influencing vibes, which is not sustainable. A new enlightenment era will follow with slightly improved academic institutes still at the center.
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Stencil Profane
@sprofane
Is there a possible reading where actual dissent or subversive thinking is so quickly absorbed by the power structures that exist, it is transformed into a homeopathic does of its origin, then the name, freed of its power can be used describe its opposite. TLDR non of the above a revolutionaries. Old power new names.
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