A Point About Language and the End of Predictable History

Expect the unexpected in the 21st century

Jared Barlament

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People like to say that the world is getting weirder; more erratic; harder to define. You could argue that is both the least and the most true right now that it has ever been. What is undeniable is that the rules which used to predictably guide world events up until recently have broken down in front of us without our realizing. Though you could presume that an all-time high in global interconnectedness would bring about a corresponding high in global mutual…

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Jared Barlament

Author and essayist from Wisconsin studying anthropology and philosophy at Columbia University.