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Maurice
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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
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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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@royalaid.eth
Also I would push back on the "questioning everything". I see a lot of question asking but no real question answering, or a least very few attempts to answer in good faith and a lot bad faith question asking. You can see it in a lot of the proliferation of conspiracy theories, ie that the Trump Admin is trying to take the US into a fascist dictatorship from the left side of the aisle or the recycling of old conspiracies like chemtrails by the right side. Everyone is baiting debate and has settled into strongly divided positions and just wants to brow beat the other side and not listen, communication breaks down and legitimate issues become conflated and pinned to irreconcilable and atomizing problems thus blocking any attempts at solidarity. These kinds of conversations do nothing but foment further division and think the only think that might heal this is real economic recovery because that is what most people need.
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Maurice
@maurice
Thank you very much for your detailed comment. I really appreciate that. I'll have to read through it again later, but I would already say that I mostly agree with you.
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