A pole shift has just occurred in the mediascape

Some MSMs have gotten the memo, others not so much...

A psychologist friend of mine once remarked to me that he sensed a large-scale “shift” in the prevailing zeitgeist, something he couldn’t quite put his finger on - but he saw it present in a surge of neuroses both public and private.

Without being able to pinpoint exactly what it was, he ballpark-ed it as happening sometime in the 2014-2016 timeframe.

He dealt with individuals (he’s retired now), so he didn’t try to connect the dots on a macro level - he just knew they were there.

Connecting dots on a macro level is basically my role here; it’s basically all about pattern recognition more than anything else.

Our base thesis is that the world is undergoing a phase shift that is reconfiguring the global order. Since the fall of the Soviet Empire, conventional wisdom has held that the prevailing global paradigm - call it, the Neoliberal “rules-based…