What I am about to write is going to sound like a joke but it's not a joke. Umair Haque has written
What I am about to write is going to sound like a joke but it's not a joke.
Umair Haque has written an interesting post about how the last great leap forward philosophically was existentialism. He points out that Europeans went humanistic with it and Americans went nihilistic. Basically, sharing v selfish.
He points out that America has shown itself to be a cratering, self-cannibalizing society that's falling apart. Sort of! But also we're not boring! Europe is boring.
This is honestly a dead serious point to me. My country makes me insane on a regular basis but I also can't help but notice that basically everything that anyone finds interesting over time comes from here. That doesn't seem to be entirely non-coincidental with the fact that we're also a harsh place that's quite uneven in its treatment of it's people.
From chaos springs change.