Back in 2019, which is now three years ago but feels like about 12 years ago, Bill Gates was arguing that the world was broadly getting better. Now, you wouldn’t know it from going online in 2019, when Trump was in Year III, nationalism was on the rise in Europe, we had a USA Presidential election coming that everyone knew would be nasty, etc. Then 2020 came, COVID slapped us in the mouth, and ironically Gates himself took a tumble, getting divorced in large part, apparently, because of his Epstein ties. Now we’re in Year III of COVID, political polarization in the USA seems endemic, everyone is bitching about everything under the sun on Twitter, and it seems like the planet might burn up in five generations anyway. What’s the point? Society is crumbling, right?
This all got some grist for the proverbial mill over the weekend when some banned-online doctor went on Rogan and talked about mass formation psychosis:
Now, if you listen to the argument, it’s sound in the sense of yes, we were isolated as people, we stare at our phones too much, some of the main ways we…
