@BruceMctague I read about half of The 4th Turning, I think. I see both patterns playing out simultaneously. Globalization is trying to create an ever larger empire, while at the human level there is more and more fragmentation.

@BruceMctague Looks like an explosion, like being pulled apart. Thinking about the cyclical patterns of humans trying to build the tower of Babel and the subsequent disunification. Empires rising and falling.

@KGrey_Com Especially bad for those living in urban industrialized environments, even worse if for many generations.

@BruceMctague Extremes are intensifying on all ends

@jim_rutt @made_in_cosmos I tried starting a babysitting club like this in my small town in Canada – crickets. It’s like people have forgotten how to be human. Going to try again this year…

Euvie Ivanova retweeted: my life would be orders of magnitude easier if I had 3-4 trusted mom neighbors so that we could occasionally drop kids at each other’s door on very short notice or come over to the other family’s place in case of an emergency

Not just Twitter, much of modern society has been trending in this direction. Anyone have counter-examples? https://t.co/ZeuOwQIaR9 Quoted tweet from @krrishd: twitter rn feels like elementary school when you and your friends got different teachers for the next grade and saw each other less and less

Twitter engagement has been really screwy lately, so I experimented with locking my account. Seems like that does change engagement, but I’m not sure I like it. What has everyone else’s experinece with this been?

@visakanv Also true for being an entrepreneur, media maker / podcaster, or artist of any kind.

@nathan_jcurtis We’ll see what I notice.