Good read here for all.... full disclosure, it is written by a Trump hater. Sharing the intro, link as full article and it is not short.
"In The Dark Forest, volume 2 of the Three-Body Problem science fiction trilogy, Cixin Liu mentions almost in passing a 50-year period of immense social upheaval, destruction and (ultimately) recovery across the globe. He never goes into the details of this period that he calls the Great Ravine. He basically just waves his hands at it and writes “yep, that happened”.
Why? Because the Great Ravine does not advance the plot.
It’s there. It happens. But there’s nothing to be gained by examining its events. Like the Cultural Revolution of Cixin Liu’s real-world history, the Great Ravine is ultimately just a tragic waste. A waste of time. A waste of wealth. A waste of lives. There is nothing to be learned from our time in the Great Ravine; it must simply be crossed.
And cross it we will.
Eventually we will come out on the other side of our Great Ravine to discover a new age where the small-l liberal virtues of personal autonomy and the small-c conservative values of social community are reclaimed, where inspiration is rekindled, ingenuity is rewarded and integrity is recognized. I know these words don’t mean much to most people right now – they never do on this side of the Great Ravine – but I promise you that one day they will again.
But until that day, which I think is probably decades away, some version of an FN SCAR-armed Jesse Plemons asking for our papers and a political loyalty test is 100% part of our American future. Hell, it’s part of our American present."
https://www.epsilontheory.com/this-is-the-great-ravine/
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