The old order is certainly fracturing. Is it just on the surface, or will the cracks go deep?

The philosophic issues alone point to much deeper issues.

One that comes to mind is the map versus territory analogy applied to platonic assumptions about math. Are these models truly fundamental, or simply reductionist?

Could these forms be as emergent as the complex reality they describe, rather than existing in some ideal form? When we reduce the body to its most stable expression, is it the skeleton, or the seed?

Then there are any number of conceptual beliefs, many with roots going back thousands of years, that are assumed to be fundamental. If we were to really sort out the clutter in the collective attic, might some of our seemingly intractable problems be effects of ancient beliefs systems.

Is time the present moving past to future, or change, turning future to past. For instance, the premise of determinism is meaningless, if the process of determination can only occur as the present.

Would a spiritual absolute be an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell, or the essence of sentience, from which we rise?

Though religion and spirituality are often dismissed, the questions of consciousness don't go away.

Is money a commodity to mine from society, or the contract enabling it to function?

To what extent is good old multicultural liberalism being replaced by some viral form of identitarian monocultural absolutism?

Many of the Serious People have invested their lives in various of these assumptions and won't willingly tolerate their being questioned, but those cracks are running along some deep fracture lines.