[acuozzo]

Plenty happens, but:

1. Events, including big ones like 9/11, don't unfold like in the movies as even direct consequences are often far removed.

2. Pax Americana + Hypernormalization + Cheap Food + Digital Escapism = a drug which convinces its users of neverending stability and order.

[churchill]

That's basically the point the meme is making. It's not arguing that nothing literally happens in spacetime; it just asserts that we rarely, if ever, see events that fundamentally change the world from its slugging baseline.