thanks, turns out I already follow the author, Geoff Shullenberger, on Twitter, due to finding his thoughts idiosyncratic and intriguing; he's here:

https://twitter.com/daily_barbarian

note he also has a twitter account for his blog/newsletter and podcast

https://twitter.com/OutsiderTheory

I'm confused. We know that internet changed people's interactions and expectations. Then Amazon for eCommerce online shopping. Then Google Search changed the next (10 years later). Then iPhone/Android for walk-around computer guides. Then Facebook for friending and sharing info. Now online banking/payments. WhatsApp for calling. Zoom for meetings. These are in-your-face signals of new paradigms, but historically there's always been zeitgeist phenomena - things that shaped us, that inform our assumptions and subconscious behavior - WWI, the Spanish Flu, the Lost Generation, the Great Depression, WWII, post-war boom/suburban sprawl, the hippy protest 60's, Reagan generation, fall of The Wall/end of (most) Communism, and so on. When the microscope let us see smaller and smaller, our brains assumed we just had to look deeper to find answers. (Google says just have to type your phrase clearer). Heisenberg came along, and suddenly answers weren't guaranteed or even possible - all our "certain" treaties fell apart and we got WWI instead of eternal peace. 90s' confidence in internet and the sole remaining superpower got waylaid by the dot com crash and the unwinnable war in Iraq - bringing major changes in people's psyche and assumptions. 1950s assumed getting married and buying a house in the suburbs with affordable education as a basic - Gen Z thinks you're crazy rich and totally unwoke if you manage (or want?) this. 50 years difference, may as well be different planet.

So why is Foucault noting dependencies even controversial? Gladwell notes the 5 richest most successful internet tycoons born within 2-3 years of each other. I had access to the same facilities as one of them but 5 years later - the super window of opportunity had already passed, not that it was bad by any means - but the wormhole in space and time wasn't there. Small rare fissures.

Much of our thought came out of specific periods - small segments of the Renaissance and the plague, Marco Polo's return, Columbus' first voyage. Christianity was formed at the Council of Nicaea more than any other event. Martin Luther's treatises were Christianity 2.0. These defined most of what we know of Europe - not the sum of all the pieces - we're not that complex.

Bitekover & Dem pushback

Republicans simply don't have a platform, just a culture attack brand.

https://digbysblog.net/2021/06/the-aggrieved-voter-turnout-model/