The vibes have shifted - since the 1970’s we’ve been moving away from science and rationality and egality towards personal “facts” and selfish feelings.
Almost like technology like deep fake AI is a lagging indicator of a very deep very human trend (like most tech is) rather than a leading cause of distrust and social fragmentation…
Todays signal looks at large scale narrative sentiment analysis across the English and Spanish world over time and shows how *something* happened in the 1970’s to reverse some pretty significant trend lines in synchronousity.
Take a look, and let me know what the trend lines are telling you about generational cohorts (and why the Boomers coming of age was such a watershed for just about everything).
And about individualism and surreality.
How does the demise of shared values and shared facts make your business more difficult? How about your society’s resilience?
And if you agree with me enough factors are lining up to point that we’re on the cusp of another once in a generation trend pivot - that personal “facts” are not a steady state equilibrium for any society...
Read more :
WTF happened : https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
The fall of rationality - and the rise of personal facts : https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107848118
Leading through endings : https://fluxtrends.com/salon/leading-through-ending-and-beginnings-a-flux-trends-salon/
From the age of rationality to the age of personal “facts”