I wonder about the cognitive and mental health correlates of living in a world that no longer makes any sense.

I remember 10 years ago watching a documentary about the previous ten years explaining how we we had moved into a post meaning world, and how this was being weaponized by various interests.

That time seems positively quaint to me now!

I was reading a book from the 1960s, and it was talking about how the world is too complicated now and moving too fast.

And of course if you read books from the late 19th century they say the exact same thing...

https://xkcd.com/1227/

Yeah, I remember reading an issue of Planetary from about (GOD HELP US!) two decades ago where the plot involved baddies who had invaded a fictional universe. In the time since then, I went from thinking "What a crazy idea for a plot" to "Hmm, I can see what inspired that" to "Jesus wept. People can basically choose to do this now. And they vote!"