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Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset

The indicators of breakdown and collapse are all around us, but we don't dare name them because then they'd become a problem we can't bury.

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Charles Hugh Smith
Nov 22, 2024
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A reality doesn't exist in the human experience until it has a name. If it doesn't have a name, we don't recognize it, and can't discuss it. We may think we've already named everything under the sun but new things arise and need to be named to be fully experienced / grasped / understood.

I have a name for The Collapse of Quality: Anti-Progress, which is …

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