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Why is The World so Messed Up?
A look at the underlying technology causes of Trump, Elon, Andrew Tate, Brexit, culture wars etc.
2025 is shaping up to be a crazy year. Just look like how Elon Musk is ravaging through the US federal government with a bunch of 19 year old engineers with no government experience. It is a crazy world but it is just one of many things.
- The Trump election
- Swedish far-right, Sweden Democrats getting into power
- Dutch far-right, Party for Freedom getting power in the Netherlands
- National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen in France getting ever closer to power
- German far-right party AfD with wind in their sails and support from Musk
- In my native Norway the populist right has higher ratings in polls than ever in history. If elections was tomorrow they would be the biggest party.
Crime and violence has seen an uptick. We are struggling with integration. There are a lot of things going wrong and many things that feel eerily similar to the 1930s. At the time there was fascist takeover of power all across the world. Most of you only really know or think of Germany and Italy. But the fascist ideas and movements spread all over the planet. It was a massive global…