{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So from the fall of the Soviet Union (and in retrospective memory but not at-the-time reality from Reagan's first election) to a...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/659273634702049280/", "html": "<p>So from the fall of the Soviet Union (and in retrospective memory but not at-the-time reality from Reagan&rsquo;s first election) to a few years after the 2007 crash, we were basically in a stable politicocultural era. I was lucky and historically informed enough to to realize it was <i>an era</i> before it ended, but it was still all I ever knew plus the promise of all I wanted. But while its passing might be tragic, the fact that the transition to its degenerated &ldquo;sick man&rdquo; state <i>failed </i>and now<i> no one </i>expects stable continuity to tangent off from here means people can stop investing <b>any</b> energy in keeping up with shifts and reorient towards crafting a successor to their taste</p>"}