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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/BothLeather6738 on 2025-05-03 21:54:02+00:00.
I’ve been seeing more and more posts (e.g. this one where people say things like “every year feels shorter”, “time is warped”, “2020 feels at the same time day and five years away”, comepletely differnt from he 2010-2020 era, etc. I’ve been trying to make sense of it (impossible, but still fun as an approximation) and came up with a theory I call: The Late Stage Capitalism – Sunk Time Vortex its heavily based on the theories of Paul Virilio about the acceleration of time, , which IMO is one of the greatest philosophers of the last 1,5 century.
The Late Stage Capitalism – Sunk Time Vortex
Time, since neoliberalism, is like a whirlpool or gravity well: the closer you get to the middle, the faster you spin, the less control you have. Events blur together. Crises compound. Our experience of time breaks. It’s exponential. Its laps:(tech) disruptions follow eachother quicker and quicker
-1 — Outside the vortex: Think Carter era — chill, stable, slow. this was hte last time we were out of the vortex
0 — Entering the vortex (1980s- 2000): Reagan introduces the first tax laws, neoliberalism. Laps around the vortex are slow, but we begin spiraling. By the time it’s mid 90’s though we definitely feel we are in “something” . The weird Clinton era is the effect of the neoliberalism vortex taking of in 1980
1 — Acceleration (2000–2016): Tech ramps up. Crises start to cluster. 9/11, 2008 crash, rise of surveillance. ISIS terrorism
1.5 — Truth warps (2016–2025): Trump, mass misinformation, Lies travel faster than truth, and trump tells 35.000 lies in it first term. Amazon/AWS and other oligarchs inward. And become too big to fail. Time feels off. we are constanyl in the projectec bright future that never comes.
2 — leap (2026–2029): Disruptive tech eats itself. AI displaces 100 millons of jobs, then quantum is introduced. AI tools distort reality Conflict becomes constant. Power becomes reactive.
3 — The Singularity: (somewhere, one point in 2030-2035) Could be AI+quantum collapse, a financial illusion burst, or full-on WW3. We don’t know.
It feels like we’re 4–6 years away from the center.
Do you feel this too? Does this model resonate with you? Would love to hear other takes.
Do y’all feel this too? That time has gone of the rails? Is spiralling?
Edit* one other thing is that the closer we get to this point the more people start to kinda deny it. I’ve always been very good at pattern recognition and always people believed me. Now, It’s very much Cassandra complex for me, where I feel what is happening but the more I predict a disaster’s future the more other people will simply say it’s not true. Which is complete Lee explainble through cognitive byus like denial bias.