So after Trump upset the government and the rhythms tied to it the next stage was the Discourse, and so much of that is Twitter, and sure enough the winds are shifting and the Musk takeover was the trigger in a lot of ways, which is just…

Like, you could have interpreted the lay of things as the intersecting product of the 21th cen. shift of the population into knowledge work, and since-90s internet business finance cycles, and particular resonances with the stage of the culture cycle and institutionalizations of how this stage was addressed previous cycles…

…and this ends up resolved in accordance with the personal and fairly bumbling intervention of the richest man in the world, a literal heir to the form of European colonialism to persist closest to the modern day…

People joke about blaming things on the shooting of Harambe, but yeah, since about then events have consistently unfolded in line with a freakishly novelistic logic

Like, my brand here is kind of as a history guy, and part of that is I can make things look like dynamic narratives, in retrospect, but another part is being aware of how odd and unlike things it is to be like this at the time