If your first move is to see how it’s similar to historical situations, it will disambiguate in precisely that way. If your first move is to evaluate the elements and their … repercussions… then, a bit like a doctor… or detective… you will see the elements at play and how they might be making the present situation unique… you will naturally derive that from your intentions and their preferenced perspectives.

But you will also see how »time has been compressed … in each new generation or situation. So now, as predicted by Alvin Toffler in Future Shock, we are experiencing relationships with temporality, proximity and sudden unexpected transformation (or introduction of ambiguity) that are largely if not totally unprecedented.

It’s not like 9-11 when we »mostly knew what was going on, and the scope was limited to a single event with a beginning and an end. This is open-ended. And it’s… really fucking novel. It’s not playing out like science fiction. The basis of authority itself has been… suspended in ways we are certainly unaccustomed to. And that is not merely confusing, though we all sense the threats that might accompany such a circumstance… it is also liberating.