Good question. I agree with the framing here, #1497516, where you said globalism, liberal democracy is a story people believe.
We probably have to look to the youth. Not that it will be for them to decide, but whatever comes about has to be plausible for them. They, unlike our predecessors, probably won't go fight abroad for an abstract notion like "nation," "liberty" etc. My prediction is they will withdraw as the current order heaves its last sigh. Communities fragment, coalesce and will and build until they have something worth fighting for. A larger, more powerful force will swoop in to usurp what they have, and then the cycles of war will continue. This is my bull case. Bear case is technofeudalism. We will most likely land somewhere in between.
Tldr; imho, the meta narrative that replaces liberal demlcracy is some kind of agri-localism and this will be contrasted by dystopian techno-feudalist megacity nightmares. Both, to me, are intimations of a dark age that resist broad stroke -ismness
Good question. I agree with the framing here, #1497516, where you said globalism, liberal democracy is a story people believe.
We probably have to look to the youth. Not that it will be for them to decide, but whatever comes about has to be plausible for them. They, unlike our predecessors, probably won't go fight abroad for an abstract notion like "nation," "liberty" etc. My prediction is they will withdraw as the current order heaves its last sigh. Communities fragment, coalesce and will and build until they have something worth fighting for. A larger, more powerful force will swoop in to usurp what they have, and then the cycles of war will continue. This is my bull case. Bear case is technofeudalism. We will most likely land somewhere in between.
Tldr; imho, the meta narrative that replaces liberal demlcracy is some kind of agri-localism and this will be contrasted by dystopian techno-feudalist megacity nightmares. Both, to me, are intimations of a dark age that resist broad stroke -ismness