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When a paradigm shifts, nothing works the same way anymore, but we behave as it it should for quite a long time. If we drove the car into the river, we would probably keep stomping on the brake pedal as the water rose over the windows. This says a lot about humanity's persistent self-destructive behavior.
Just when global overheating was hitting its stride, the telecommunications network went super-critical, touching off the aggregated-attention goldrush. Information markets tanked. Already collectively traumatized, we were all but incapacitated in the face of environmental collapse brought on by fossil fuel combustion.
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