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Gloves are off, the illusion of reaching a more civilized time at the end of history is thrown in the trash, anything is possible.
This is the decade where cracks in American hegemony spring all the way through: societal failures in 2020, military/diplomatic failures in 2022, economic/technological failures in 2025.
But nobody seems to want to pop the balloon by bringing on the major conflict and upheaval. Everyone knows the guard rails aren't there, and they're stopping short.
Everything that seemed upbeat about information tech is ruined. Energy scarcity and the Great Simplification are rushing at us ever faster, and this is largely a good thing because it will save us from the technocrats and place a clear restrictive barrier to what capitalism thought it could achieve. A check on human ambitions and hubris will be one of the most defining moments in human history.
The time is ripe for a distributed entity that values equality, ecology, good design, and appropriate technology to position itself for a boom. The more you plant in spring, the less you starve in winter.