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Eric has referred to '''The Big Nap''' as the era characterized by magical thinking and extraordinary luck between the end of World War II and the 2020 emergence of COVID-19. | |||
The Big Napâat least in the developed free worldâwas essentially characterized as a run of extraordinary relative good luck and serenity (at least by the historical standards set by previous world wars, pandemics, depressions, and depressions), where the new gathering storm clouds of the Cold War threatened and menaced in the distance, but the skies directly above remained unprecedentedly clear. This created a bizarre developmental environment where the serenity of the Big Nap led to a worldwide epidemic of magical thinking among the expert and leadership classes that were raised during this time. | |||
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The period beginning on September 2, 1945, and ending 75 years later on February 19, 2020âwhich signaled the end of World War II and the beginning of the slide from the peak of the stock market when the world began to accept that the Coronavirus was indeed a serious pandemic, respectively. | The period beginning on September 2, 1945, and ending 75 years later on February 19, 2020âwhich signaled the end of World War II and the beginning of the slide from the peak of the stock market when the world began to accept that the Coronavirus was indeed a serious pandemic, respectively. | ||
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[[30:_Ross_Douthat_-_The_Rave_Before_the_Fall#The_Big_Nap|Source]] | [[30:_Ross_Douthat_-_The_Rave_Before_the_Fall#The_Big_Nap|Source]] | ||
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