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“the 21st century was in a state of present shock, where the future already happened and our focus was on minute-by-minute developments. This applied to the 2010s, but in this decade the world, afraid of global pandemics, environmental devastation, increased nuclear proliferation, genocide and impending AI doom, has been frozen in a state of what I would call “past shock.” We have been rapidly cycling through retro trends and reboots like the reminiscences we nervously recount at a relative’s deathbed. The dream economy thrives in this environment of course. If humanity is dying, why not watch its life flash before our eyes? One of the deepest ironies of our age that has been puzzled on by many great thinkers: as our technology gets better, we are that much more stuck in the past. Our dreamscape consists primarily of recurring dreams. Half the reason we are stuck further in the past is because we have amnesia of our recent past. Movies like Avatar gross millions, only to be forgotten.” https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/stop-the-stream

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