Our disintegrating world

 

Donald Trump Is the First Demagogue of the Anthropocene

He won’t be the last.


This is my favorite kind of think piece. Where our rapidly changing world is headed... and why we think it's going that way. 

When you have deep ethnic divisions and fear of the Other colliding with overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource depletion, climate deterioration, the rise of political absolutism and  the world's poor being left behind by all our world's governing systems (you know, we really can't afford to do anything about them)... what is the net result of all these trends going to look like?

This person paints a pretty good picture. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/trump-the-first-demagogue-of-the-anthropocene/504134/


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