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themisto | 3 years ago

Love learning about words and ideas like "interregnum". It's uncomfortable to think of a global societal interregnum -- at what point we may be in it, where it will end up, and if things will be "better" on the other side.

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nonrandomstring|3 years ago

It's a good concept isn't it. I prefer it to talking about a "crisis" of this or that - because the idea that a society or humankind might "Just not know what's going on any more" is less loaded than a "crisis" which implies some correct way of being that we deviated from. But beware. There's a half-dozen varying accounts of what it really means and when our journey into the wilderness started. By Nietzsche's account it was the 1900s.

uplifter|3 years ago

> By Nietzsche's account it was the 1900s.

I’m confused by this because Nietzsche died in 1900. Was it a prophecy? Or did you mean the 1800s?