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February 22, 2017

The warning lights have been flashing, and the klaxons sounding, for more than a decade and a half.

But our pundits and prognosticators and professors and policymakers,
ensconced as they generally are deep within the bubble, were for the most part too distant from the distress of the general population to see or hear it. (So much for the vaunted “information era” and “big-data revolution.”) Now that those signals are no longer possible to ignore, it is high time for experts and intellectuals to reacquaint themselves with the country in which they live and to begin the task of describing what has befallen the country in which we have lived since the dawn of the new century. Our Miserable 21st Century | commentary

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 22, 2017 7:55 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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