1. The political center is ded 💀, & society trudges toward the dragon’s lair

2. We can feel the social discomfort, the growing polarization, the fear, the uncertainty over the future for our kids, schools, jobs

3. Seems obvious, but I never anticipated how bad it could be for your psychology to live through such "interesting times"

4. Debates at summer picnics used to be, debates. Intellectual affairs of the mind. Now, they’re emotional affairs of the 💖. Grandpa trembles with anger, dad storms off, auntie declines invitations knowing certain others will attend 🧵👇

Futurist telling stories about crypto and AI at Delphi Labs. Proposed the BRC-20, Bascii and Asteroid standards.

8. Each of us glimpse slivers of truth from different angles

9. This trend shows no signs of reversing. It's only just begun

10. The multiverse might not even need to exist as a physics concept because we're bringing it into our day-to-day existence. Each of us drifting into increasingly strange and isolated realities of our own making

11. I don't know if this is ultimately good or bad and I never try to assign moral judgements on change. But I know I don’t like the way it makes me feel

12. There’s terrible heat around the corner ahead. The dragon’s eyes are open

13. I need to remember, we need to remember, that beneath it all, we are one

5. Some of this is simply generational shifts in society (I picture history like a clock pendulum swinging between progressive and conservative ideologies… we go too far in one direction, then overcorrect on the way back)

6. Perhaps what we're witnessing is an inevitable right-sizing after decades of government overspending & overly woke/progressive ideology. (h/t 
@Sn0wdr1ft
 for the chart) But I suspect a deeper current runs beneath these changes: future shock

7. We all inhabit different realities today. Our news sources = splintered. And our social groups have become so finely tuned that we never encounter dissenting views… unless they come from someone we can't easily "unstick" from our lives, like family