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by al_hag 1518 days ago
Supposedly it was Goethe who once observed,

“When eras are on the decline, all tendencies are subjective; but, on the other hand, when matters are ripening for a new epoch, all tendencies are objective.”

Like an entropic principle of social information exchange, with the potential for reorganization under a new paradigm.