This rant was a tremendous unlock for me and I recommend everybody here go listen to it.
It simplified the world of the present day for me so clearly: the 80 year Strauss-Howe cycle is above all else the death and rebirth of a shared paradigm. After a crisis, we establish a paradigm for everything - money, the social contract, gender roles, government, social values, expectations of each other and the use of technology, etc. That paradigm holds for 80 years, but accumulates many anomalies - unintended consequences, edge cases, unanticipated challenges - along the way. At a certain point, enough anomalies accumulate for people to begin rejecting the old paradigm and searching for a new one.
The very obvious two camps in the world right now are the people who still accept the paradigm, and the people who have given up on it and are seeking a new one.
This will be a period where a lot of bad proposals are made for new paradigms. We just have to have faith that the ones that actually work will prevail.
