You are overlooking what our parents went through, with the Depression and WW2. Not to mention what their parents went through, with the dawn of cars, radio and telephones. Or their parents, with the explosion of industrialization over agriculture. Or their parents….

Frankly the last 60–70 years have been fairly stable and that has been what allowed society to have the space to question some of the cultural assumptions it took for granted.

While we are focused on the technology and the politics, I suspect it will be the economics that will most define our immediate future, as the enormous bubbles of debt we have built up, to sustain that stability, start to implode.

My take on the reality;

Peeling the Paradigm