{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Oh all the stuff where I could tell the 2010s were going to end up here, it wasn't some Ozymandias gambit where I foresaw every...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/696253238716039168/", "html": "<p>Oh all the stuff where I could tell the 2010s were going to end up here, it wasn&rsquo;t some Ozymandias gambit where I foresaw every specific turn, it was like I could conceive of a few (interrelated) <i>fields of conflict</i>, with various <i>correlations of forces</i> with different <i>positions</i> and <i>momentums</i> going for particular <i>goals</i>, and based on my understanding of these things in history I knew, by 2018 at latest, that <i>friction</i> would bring the insurgent forces down short unless they reconsolidated, and they weren&rsquo;t lining up to.</p><p>And they haven&rsquo;t!</p>"}