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by banku_brougham 2362 days ago
I think its more like a fire that is burning a system we might have called ‘civic discourse.’ Our societal communication is sustaining damage, it looks like Fury Road on the other side.

The theory of moral sentiments, the ideas of The Republic, are an architecture built over centuries of human civilization. The forces of anarchy and disorder are hard at work pulling it down.

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and behind that disorder and anarchy are corporations and totalitarian regimes looking to weaken democracies for their own self-serving ends.