The N^2 Revolution
The No-Name Revolution, or N^2 Revolution, first shared by Eric on December 31, 2017, is the name Eric has given the crisis we are currently facing. He proposes that our current cultural predicament was caused by our loss of Semi-Reliable Communal Sense-making. This is the sum total of the DISC, EGOs, and Load-Bearing Fictions being realized.
...there was enough complex for us to function as a country and I think that has gone away. So I think that this (our loss of Semi-Reliable Communal Sense-making) is the parent of the crisis which I increasingly think of as, what I call it is: The No-Name Revolution or the N-squared revolution. We are in some sort of new regime which doesn't look like any revolution we have seen before. It's much less physically violent, so far. It is digitally extremely violent. And it has to do with the fact that we can't make sense of things communally at some semi-reliable level.
- Eric Weinstein January 5, 2018, on Sam Harris #112
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Tired of “Bitcoin gains in value!” headlines?
Try this: “Against a mysterious world-wide low-grade revolution in the industrialized world, the dollar & other violence backed fiat currency continued their collective plunge against math backed Bitcoin.”
Note: I’m *not* a Bitcoin evangelist & I don’t pretend to know the future. I do know of other ways to view this event that must be explored.
The sooner one comes to grips w this moment in time as a previously unknown kind of smartphone-mediated world revolution, the easier it becomes to stop trying to restore order.
The stasis in which all but our oldest have lived our entire lives is simply over.
This is truly new.
During Jan/Feb 2011, I stopped listening to news that insisted we refer to revolution in Egypt as mere “Tahrir Square Protests.” It was revolution to anyone who turned the audio off.
I’m considering doing that again. We are in a mysterious 🌍-wide “No-Name” revolution.
#N^2Rev
Unreal foorage from #Qom: "We don't want Islamic Republic, we don't want it, we don't want it." #Iranprotests #Iran #اعتراض_سراسری
Think about what you are seeing here. And what may well come next.
I have been saying for years now that what we are really in is a world wide low grade revolution of a previously unknown type. The idea that Chile, Iran, HK, Lebanon, Paris, Netherlands, etc are unrelated is off.
Poly U entrance in flames as riot police try to storm in #HK #HongKongProtests #StandwithHongKong
Think bigger. Remember where we were in December 2019? We didn’t see World wide quarantine coming.
Think bigger. A long standing order is crumbling.
Fukuyama notwithstanding, history is once again creaking to life. This is not the size of what’s likely coming...
#ThinkBigger
BREAKING: The third precinct police station is on fire. Rioters have taken over
I said a few years ago that we are in the midst of an as yet unknown kind of worldwide low grade revolution.
Well, its a supersaturated environment right now. Not guaranteed to blow...but the amount of kindling is unparalleled in my lifetime.
The N^2-Revolution: What we are experiencing as upending all of our lives is being systematically misunderstood and misexplained at scale.
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